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“36 million Chinese died from starvation during the Great Famine. As a comparison, the Holocaust killed 6 million Jews. Every educated person in the world knows about the Holocaust. How many in the world have heard of China’s Great Famine?”
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
“The Chinese Communist Party did not cut him any slack for having been an insurrection hero eight years earlier. Indeed, like Papa, almost all his fellow insurrectionists were declared “capitalist rightists.”
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
“Mao’s Act III was from 1966 to his final year, 1976. The people who drew the shortest straw then were high school students, including Lily, Ning, and me, who were still in high school in 1966. Many of us were misled into brutally purging Mao’s political enemies, who were innocent, and indiscriminately destroying Chinese culture.”
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
― Swimming to Freedom: An Untold Story of Escaping China and the Cultural Revolution
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