People dying left and right in party hospitals because everyone with medical training was in laogai or collective farms

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Jesus

Why did they lock up doctors (

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Great grandpa was a PLA soldier and fought for the reds, and against Japan. A capitalist in disagreement with KMT corruption

What is the PLA?

People's Liberation Army

Was your grandpa soviet?

Chinese

Ag

Ah*

And he had a high school diploma

I'm glad he made it out of China.

So that meant when the 60s came, he was an intellectual

He didn't

Oh :(

He's related to me by marriage

Oh

So he got dragged through the street as an elitist intellectual because he graduated high school (unusual at the time)

A public show-trial and ridicule in the town square where he wore a dunce cap and they threw shit at him

He wasn't killed, and wasn't even fired from his job, I don't know what he did at the time but he wasn't in the army anymore

But he got forcibly relocated to some country ass middle of nowhere town

So yeah that's what happens to the educated under communism

Nothing good

People got killed for owning houses and stuff. Not even a, give me your house or die thing. They just got killed.

There's a really good movie about it, that is not banned in China

"To Live". Obviously didn't get released in theaters but it wasn't banned outright which shocks the hell out of me

Probably one of the saddest and most depressing movies I've ever seen

Not much mention of mass graves, mass starvation etc. Just depicts the shitty life of one ordinary family in that time

anyone watching?

Yea, too many boomers

Really curious to see where the prosecutor was going with that music in the living room thing

Ragnarok

I'll definitely check it out.

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I was there, all this happened, but someone else had to tell me where

@Iakovos there's another one that's more bearable if you like action, Assembly. A PLA officer fought in the revolution and was the lone survivor of his unit, and has to fight bureaucracy and the party to get recognition for his soldiers who died instead of them being labeled as deserters

The prosecutor they hired is a crusader against sex offenders. I think she will be fair