Huang, Hai: The Massacre of the Cultural Revolutio
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Date: 7/28/2008 3:05:36 PM
Sender: Huang, Hai
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Huang, Hai: The Massacre of the Cultural Revolution
In 1970s, my parents, like most Chinese, went through a unprecedented “Storm”---the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when my sisters were children and I just a baby.
The Cultural Revolution, as everyone experienced it or heard about it knows that it was so powerful and long-lasting that almost every Chinese lives were destroyed or changed forever. There were families were broken by children who lost their parents or wives who lost their husbands.
The Cultural Revolution was plotted by chairman Mao who want to hold the position forever by murdering latent opponents. Mao had been chairman since the Civil war took place between the Communism party and the Nationalism party(the official administrator of China before being overthrown by the Communism in 1949).Since Mao’s communism government controlled China, during the first few years, thanks to the peaceful environment China had developed more than before.
Mao was being worshipped by people with a fanaticism. The younger generation of that time was the first one to be fanned and encouraged by Mao and then the movement spread whole country. Those vicious ones were taking advantage of the movement to murder anyone who was thought not sweet to their eyes.
Like the sky suddenly fell down overnight, my parents lost not only their office posts but also their wages. My father had been taken away and detained in an secret place treated like a prisoner. My mother and sisters and brothers were extremely worried and anxious days and nights.
We had no money to buy delicious food, my mother had to look for everything could be eaten on the earth to prevent us from starvation. And I needed mother’s milk every day. For years we could only eat a combination of inferior rice with remains of vegetables which my mother took home from the garbage. We had no money to buy new clothes and shoes, my oldest sister and brother had to wear my mother’s and my father’s clothes respectively, than passed to the next oldest ones.
My father had been tortured every day and night. He caught a seriously lung disease during the darkest days. The lung disease was so serious that the doctors had to sent a “Death Notice” to my mother and refused to offer further treatment.
Finally he was taken to home from the hospital and died on December17,1970.There was a big coffin prepared for him made by the kind neighbors.
Now, the Cultural Revolution was passed more than decades, the disaster happened not noly by Mao’s plot, but also by the communism system.Unfortunately the Chinese people is still living under the dictatorship there are no democracy, no sound laws and human rights.
Huang, Hai
07/28/2008
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