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“The key to understanding the appeal of communism, despite the grim reality on the ground, lay in the fact that it allowed so many followers to believe that they were participants in an historic process of transformation, contributing to something much bigger than themselves, or anything that had come before.”
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
“But even as every promise was broken, the party kept on gaining followers. Many were idealists, some were opportunists, others thugs. They displayed astonishing faith and almost fanatical conviction, sometimes even after they themselves had ended up being devoured by the party machinery. A”
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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