50 Years After the Cultural Revolution, a Son Awaits Answers on His Father’s Death
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/world/asia/china-cultural-revolution-mao-zedong-red-guards.htmlBEIJING — Fifty years after his father was killed, Chen Shuxiang still wonders what happened to his bloodied corpse. He keeps a frayed note from back then that let him make his way through the mayhem of the Cultural Revolution and pay the student zealots who beat his father to death to have him cremated.
He never found his father’s body. Ever since, he has hoped for answers, and waited for the students who killed his father to turn up, older and contrite, and say they were sorry. No one has.
Mr. Chen is still waiting for a frank reckoning with the legacy of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and so is China.
Mao Zedong is just as bad as Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Adolf Hitler. Millions died during Mao's reign of terror during the Great Leap Forward.
