Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s implementations of his Communist ideologies in China from 1949 to 1976 resulted in some of the worst disasters the Chinese have endured. Under Mao, countless innocent Chinese citizens had their lives completely destroyed or ended because they often were falsely accused of political crimes. Various political policies and implementation by whoever Mao favored held limitless power to ruin entire generations of families due to connections to intellectuals, landowners, or almost any type of upper class citizen. Mao Ze-dong’s senseless destruction throughout China through his twenty-seven years of radical and ridiculous policies brought extreme hardship to all aspects of Chinese lives. Son of the Revolution is an autobiography
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As a result, “great congratulatory festivals were held in every unit”, and the Work Teams were withdrawn with vague explanation. One could never be sure whether they were going to be a leader one day or thrown in a rehabilitation center the next. In relation, his father was accused as a counterrevolutionary to the Party under policies against the Three-family Village. This was attributed to his involvement with the Kuomintang Youth League, though he quickly switched to the Communist Party. His accusers also brought to public knowledge his ex-wife was a Rightist. Furthermore, his editorial work for the Correspondent magazine and Hunan Daily newspaper was called into question. Anything he said was interpreted as counterrevolutionary and there was no way to fight back. Another one of Mao’s policies was the liberation of counterrevolutionary cadres from the Chairman Mao Thought Study Classes so they and their families could reform themselves by living as peasants. This was to allow the cadres to teach the peasants thoroughly about Chairman Mao, and Communism, while the cadres reformed themselves. However, the peasants barely had enough food to feed their families, let alone another agriculturally unskilled family, and did not want them. Ultimately, they had to accept
As a result, “great congratulatory festivals were held in every unit”, and the Work Teams were withdrawn with vague explanation. One could never be sure whether they were going to be a leader one day or thrown in a rehabilitation center the next. In relation, his father was accused as a counterrevolutionary to the Party under policies against the Three-family Village. This was attributed to his involvement with the Kuomintang Youth League, though he quickly switched to the Communist Party. His accusers also brought to public knowledge his ex-wife was a Rightist. Furthermore, his editorial work for the Correspondent magazine and Hunan Daily newspaper was called into question. Anything he said was interpreted as counterrevolutionary and there was no way to fight back. Another one of Mao’s policies was the liberation of counterrevolutionary cadres from the Chairman Mao Thought Study Classes so they and their families could reform themselves by living as peasants. This was to allow the cadres to teach the peasants thoroughly about Chairman Mao, and Communism, while the cadres reformed themselves. However, the peasants barely had enough food to feed their families, let alone another agriculturally unskilled family, and did not want them. Ultimately, they had to accept