As Mao and his administration came through into politics and the public eye, Mao’s vision of a New China began. In this, it was officially named the Cultural Revolution—due to its goal to restore the “vitality” of communism in China. The reality of said revolution differed greatly from China’s new government’s claims about it, through the morality blindness that society faced throughout the 60s.
China’s new communist-style government has marketed and made Mao Tse-tung one of China’s biggest icons of that time period. The government, withhold of the press and all media of china, were able to use propaganda posters and flyers to further show Mao’s thought as a “positive” and more “progressional” notion for China to become a more successful society—particular …show more content…
As people in China began to take Mao’s thought to heart and began praising others that supported his words, they were very cruel and brutal to those that opposed. In Document 2, especially, a known group called The Red Guards had created a song for the accused opposers (commonly were teachers or deans) of Mao’s thought—in which they were forced to sing as punishment and given public humiliation by singing such a song; if the song was not sung at the satisfactory of the “punisher” than those opposers would be beaten or in other ways punished more. Most chilling lines were, “If I speak or act incorrectly, / May you beat me and smash me, / Beat me and smash me,” (D2). From Document 3, it took note of “some tenth-grade students at the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Teachers University started [beating]... a group comprised of three vice principals and two deans...Many students came to join them,” in which furthers the truth of the reality of the Culture Revolution; innocent lives are being taken away to do the influence of Mao’s thought and people’s passion derived from it. What is most shocking out all the cruelty and beating—sometimes murder—of these innocent people were that most of it were done by the younger generations, those that were more impressionable and thus influenced by Mao’s thought easily. Conditioned to believe that his way, was the only way (all on their own)—and since no one had objected against their cruel acts (as well as The Red Guards hostilities) these continued on until Mao’s held the “Down to the Countryside Movement” in 1968 as he realized that his revolution began to spin out of
China’s new communist-style government has marketed and made Mao Tse-tung one of China’s biggest icons of that time period. The government, withhold of the press and all media of china, were able to use propaganda posters and flyers to further show Mao’s thought as a “positive” and more “progressional” notion for China to become a more successful society—particular …show more content…
As people in China began to take Mao’s thought to heart and began praising others that supported his words, they were very cruel and brutal to those that opposed. In Document 2, especially, a known group called The Red Guards had created a song for the accused opposers (commonly were teachers or deans) of Mao’s thought—in which they were forced to sing as punishment and given public humiliation by singing such a song; if the song was not sung at the satisfactory of the “punisher” than those opposers would be beaten or in other ways punished more. Most chilling lines were, “If I speak or act incorrectly, / May you beat me and smash me, / Beat me and smash me,” (D2). From Document 3, it took note of “some tenth-grade students at the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Teachers University started [beating]... a group comprised of three vice principals and two deans...Many students came to join them,” in which furthers the truth of the reality of the Culture Revolution; innocent lives are being taken away to do the influence of Mao’s thought and people’s passion derived from it. What is most shocking out all the cruelty and beating—sometimes murder—of these innocent people were that most of it were done by the younger generations, those that were more impressionable and thus influenced by Mao’s thought easily. Conditioned to believe that his way, was the only way (all on their own)—and since no one had objected against their cruel acts (as well as The Red Guards hostilities) these continued on until Mao’s held the “Down to the Countryside Movement” in 1968 as he realized that his revolution began to spin out of