The cultural and historical backdrop of China, marred by the traumas of the Cultural Revolution and other violent suppressions, casts a stark light on the courage displayed by Falun Gong practitioners.

“It's the Communist Party that's involved in the mass starvation, the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square Massacre, in the repression of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong.

The unrest and cultural revolution in America in the 1960s is a cultural tide that informs today’s events. Anti-Vietnam protestors surround a police car outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The Party’s atheist communist ideals and series of deadly political campaigns—from the decade-long Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square massacre—had shaken the Chinese people to the core.

-based scholar told The Epoch Times that the CCP is going backward, restoring the confinement of people’s thoughts and behaviors like during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Critics contend that removing statues is part of a Marxist-based cultural revolution that seeks to portray the United States as a systemically racist country founded on slavery.

We saw it during China’s Cultural Revolution, when the Red Guard did most of the killing, and we saw it in the COVID-19 lockdowns when average people felt moved to rat out their fellow citizens to the health police.

With its mission to revive the traditional culture of China, Shen Yun is banned in China where the ruling communist regime has worked for the past 70 years to root out traditional culture through violent campaigns like the Cultural Revolution.

Another of its motives for killing is to recruit participants from general society, as was done during the Cultural Revolution in China.

The Cultural Revolution is about to return, not only in real life, but also on the internet. Hard times are coming to the Chinese people, and they may soon be back to the era of holding Mao’s quotations and Little Red Book in their hands.”

Mao Zedong would praise Lu as the “chief general of China’s cultural revolution.”

Deng’s resolution rectified the chaos after the Cultural Revolution and set China on course to incorporate “market mechanisms” into the Chinese economy.

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In 1967, as the communist party's cultural revolution started, Jiang was detained and later sent to the western Qinghai Province to work in military stables. In 1972, he returned to the No. 301 hospital.

“They are following the line of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” said Loudon, who is also a contributor to The Epoch Times. “The Cultural Revolution wiped out the previous Chinese culture; they toppled statues and desecrated monuments.”

“Many people think they can live a much better life than during the Cultural Revolution,” he said. However, their interests would be at stake if CCP leader Xi Jinping closed China’s doors to the world.

of violent campaigns like the Cultural Revolution.

During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China, extensive campaigns wiped out intellectuals and scholars who were seen as a threat to communist teachings.

It sought to destroy Falun Gong because it awakens China’s spiritual and moral foundation, which was crushed during the Cultural Revolution.

History textbooks describe the Cultural Revolution, which had long been characterized as a "ten-year catastrophe," as an "arduous probing" of social construction, reverting its nature and obviously clearing historical obstacles for the ultra-leftist policies

In the later time, the adverse effects of the CCP's Cultural Revolution on the economy became evident, and it was unable to meet the increasing demands of the VCP.

Mao, the first Chinese leader, launched the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, which threw the most populous country in the world into chaos.

In the late 1970s, after a decade of the Cultural Revolution that effectively dismantled traditional education in China, Chinese authorities were eager to catch up to the West.

Before the 1979 revolution, French culture permeated Iran, and Iranians learned French at school,” she said. "Iranians are not asking for 100,000 soldiers to be sent.

Something as drastic as the Cultural Revolution was about to start all over again. The black cloud of oppression choking the country signaled that something as drastic as the Cultural Revolution was about to start all over again.

Mao’s last major forced reform, the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” from 1966 to 1776, was actually a fortuitous event for the United States, as it distracted the CCP from U.S. actions in nearby Vietnam.

Young Chinese people demonstrate during the “great proletarian Cultural Revolution” in front of the French embassy, in Beijing, China, in January 1967.

A title not seen since China’s Cultural Revolution has reemerged. The Communist Party’s central committee dubbed leader Xi Jinping China’s "Helmsman." It’s the same term used to describe former leader Mao Zedong.

During the 1966 Cultural Revolution in China, extreme materialism, as well as Darwinism, took over the already troubled land, violently forcing out Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions.