More personal Cultural Rev stories on 40th anniversary
Submitted by lightyear on Wed, 2006-05-31 20:23. :: Things Chinese
On one hand it's the same old. But on the other hand 40's a round number and we are afterall, interseted in China. So please, no whining the likes of "hey, but it's better now, so the CCP is improving."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4985756.stm
When the Cultural Revolution started, I was 15 or 16 years old. Usually I didn't like to join such a political movement, because my background wasn't good.
One day I went to school... and one of my classmates... reported me to the Red Guards, for he wished to join them. He told them I was hiding an anti-revolution diary...
We managed to hold them in a small school building for two or three days. They didn't have food and the water had been cut off as well. Then the Party officials in Shanghai broke us up.
During the fight, I had my revenge, I beat up the students in the hostile faction; I slapped the face of the classmate who sold me out.
What made us behave in this way? Firstly it was the system, secondly it was because we were young, childish and fanatical. Why did the classmate of mine say I was hiding an anti-revolution diary? It wasn't necessarily that he made the story up. Maybe he saw me as an enemy of the class - we were taught things like that for such a long time.