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The Cultural Revolution: The Rae And Her Generation

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During the Cultural Revolution the Rae and her generation experienced something new that both their lives and China as a whole. During the end of the Great Leap Forward the president of China Liu Shaoqi urged Mao and some of the other communist leaders to end the Great Leap Forward as it had caused millions of Chinese to die of starvation. Mao felt that it was a betrayal by Liu and other communist leaders and felt that they were against the communist ideals. Mao felt that his power was threatened and he decide to find a way to get rid of Liu among others. He looked at the youth and saw their potential as revolutionaries. Mao gave students, like Rae, the power to do what they thought was right for communism. To clarify that the youth listened
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