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Is He Leading Us to Glory or to Our Doom?

By Brie Fiorentino

China Globe

Bejing - This just in, Charmain Mao announces that the Cultural Revolution has started. Yes, on October 13, 1966 Mao decided he wants to make China a better country. He described how China needs to get rid of the ‘Four Old’s throughout China;old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. He wants China to come together as one country, and doesn’t want to follow anyone else who wants to take over China.

In 1960,the Soviet Union tried to persuade China to be just like them. Stalin was in charge of the Soviet Union but after he died, a man named Khrushchov exposed how evil Stalin really was. Mao didn’t want to be part of “Revisionism” and “Capitalism” that the Soviet union was trying to encourage Mao to follow. He wanted to make “the big leap forward” and Khrushcov said it would never work and Mao should just believe in the revisionist plan. But he didn’t want to be sucked up in the Soviet Union’s influence, so he made up his own Revolution and tried to move forward.

We interviewed some witnesses to get their opinion about this event. We met a middle school teacher whose name is Jia Meileg. She went to the speech that Mao gave on the 13th and she claims, “I think the four olds and the cultural revolution is such a wonderful idea that Chairman Mao has made. I think it will benefit on the schools and the children's education.”

We also met a young man named Hong Mei. He is a doctor who works in China Medical and has a father who’s a landlord. He heard about this big event from everyone talking about it in the streets and he states, “I’m not so sure about this Cultural Revolution. I mean, I can’t predict the future, but I have a feeling that this is going to turn out to be a disaster! You can’t just change a country like that all of a sudden? Can you?” Will this Cultural Revolution turn out to be good after all, or will the idea just fall apart?