Unfortunately, because of the start of the cultural revolution, millions of people were mistreated in ways like public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, hard labor etc. Even though millions of people were mistreated at the beginning of the cultural revolution, the main idea of the cultural revolution was to continue communism. The cultural revolution impacted china in many ways like peasants being stripped of their land, the red guards were created to destroy old customs, and officials were killed off if they were teaching their students old customs. Peasants were stripped of their land to give to the red guard leaders. The red guards raided homes to destroy old customs because leader Mao made it illegal to own any old customs. Teachers
