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Was Mao's Wife as Brutal as the CCP Claims?

Into the Shadows

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The shocking story of Jiang Qing—Mao Zedong’s wife—actress turned Cultural Revolution enforcer. Was she a monster, loyal follower, or scapegoat? Explore power, propaganda, and blame behind China’s infamous political trial.

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20 Comments

@kjones5292 6 months ago

Thi is what happens when Theater Kids get too much power.

@pamelamays4186 6 months ago

White Bone Demon is a great name for a Goth Metal band.

@alexharman9001 6 months ago

They couldn’t repudiate Mao the way the Soviets repudiated Stalin because Mao wasn’t just the PRC’s Stalin – he was their Stalin and their Lenin inconveniently rolled into one megalomaniacal package.

@FX434 6 months ago

they do say Behind every great man there is a great woman so of course behind every man like Mao there's a woman like them or Even Worse

@acursedhalo 6 months ago

Your video title: Mao was Bad. His Wife was Even Worse
Your video: His wife was bad. Mao was even worse.

@gamin9wizard945 6 months ago (edited)

In before Hasan Piker starts hurling all kinds of abuse towards you, for daring to insult his favorite "hero"

@ToudaHell 6 months ago

She wasnt his wife. They had an affair while he was still married to someone else. She was evil incarnate though. My family were scholars who survived the cultural revolution and i still hear the horror stories.

@davidbridge5652 6 months ago

The revolution will eat its own

@nurventilatoren 6 months ago

That social credit score is now definitely in free fall 😂

@Deverud 6 months ago

The Great Leap Forward was more of a Great Leap Off A Cliff

@DarknessProphet 6 months ago

"Everything she has imposed on a nation of 800 million had vanished like it never existed."
Not everything. The authoritarian state still hovered proudly above the citizenry.

@tracynonumbers 6 months ago

as collectivism goes, these are Stalinist numbers
I mean, they blamed sparrows at one point

@billpetersen298 6 months ago

The National Palace Museum, in Taipei. Has over 700,000 artifacts. Rescued from China, before Mao and the red guard, would have destroyed it. ❤🇹🇼

@jyan21 6 months ago

As someone born during the Cultural Revolution and having parents and grandparents who were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, I can confidently say, Mao was evil, but his wife was the devil!

@daylate 6 months ago (edited)

Imagine that... Mao's wife was sentenced to death then commuted to life in prison just to kill herself in prison.

@answerman9933 6 months ago

The problem is when propaganda is fully controlled by the state who knows what the actual truth is. Or more likely, how much blame is being shared?

@rinzo2009 6 months ago

Now I know that Jiang Qing is the lead example of what happens when you give "Hollywood celebrities" power that's too much for their broken minds to handle.

@Scribe42 6 months ago

It’s almost as if aligning yourself with people whose ambition is to screw other people over will get you screwed over in the end.
If that were true, a lot of people in the present day should probably reconsider some things.
Damn…imagine…