Context: During the so called „100 Flowers Campain“ Mao Zedong, the leader of the chinese communist party, allowed allowed citizens to offer criticism and advice to the government and the party;hence it was intended to serve an antibureaucratic purpose, at least on the Maoists‘ part. The campaign resulted in a groundswell of criticism aimed at the Party and its policies by those outside its rank and represented a brief period of relaxation in ideological and cultural control. However criticism quickly grew out of hand and posed a threat to the communist regime. The liberation was short-lived. Afterwards, a crackdown continued through 1957 and 1959, developing into an Anti-Rightist Campaign against those who were critical of the regime and its ideology. Citizens were rounded up in waves by the hundreds of thousands, publicly criticized during struggle sessions, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor or execution
by Im_yor_boi
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Now this is big brain time.
“Never said there wasn’t any consequences”
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
Call an ambulance, but not for me.
Reminds me of when the late Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej announced that he was not infallible, and willing to be criticized, which was then followed by a wave of prosecution under Thailand’s lese-majeste laws
Hello Mr CIA agent