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Many friends have asked me why, after all I went through, I did not hate Chairman mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: We were all brainwashed.
To us Chairman mao was God. He controlled everything we read, everything we heard, and everything we learned in school. We believed everything he said. Naturally, we knew only good things about Chairman mao and the Cultural Revolution. Anything bad had to be the fault of others. Mao was blameless.