Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "North Korea’s ‘Return to Paradise’ nightmare" video.

It's like China during the Cultural Revolution, but the Cultural Revolution only lasted 10 years (1966-1976, with the first 6 years being the worst). In North Korea, this has gone on for over 70 years.
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Yeah, the music was a bit loud compared to the narrator.
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@NyoungLover I don't really see any examples of trying to better lives of people. When Mao said 炮打司令部, it was the beginning of societal chaos: Young people bullying, torturing and sometimes killing their teachers, their family members. No, it did not better the lives of people. Of course, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and others knew this, but they did not have the power to stop it. And Mao got what he wanted: Absolute power.
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@NyoungLover Well, that's what they said, but I think a more important goal was to regain Mao's complete power over the Party. Remember, just before 1966, he was increasingly sidelined by Deng and Liu, who both wanted a more pragmatic path forward. That eventually came to pass after Mao passed away.
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