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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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into his neck and he was staggering. All were barefoot, hitting broken
gongs or pots as they walked around the field crying out: "I am black gang-
ster so-and-so." Finally, they all knelt down, burned incense, and begged
Mao Zedong to "pardon their crimes."
I was stunned by this scene and I felt myself go pale. A few girls nearly
fainted.
Beatings and torture followed. I had never seen such tortures before: eat-
ing nightsoil and insects, being subjected to electric shocks, being forced to
kneel on broken glass, being hanged "like an airplane" by the arms and
legs. 95
The Cultural Revolution also applied the "human bestialization"
policy implemented earlier under Lenin and Stalin. Opponents identi-
fied as "enemies of the people" were forced to imitate an animal in pub-
lic. Some professors under arrest had their hands tied behind them and,
after being thrown to the ground, were forced to "graze," pulling up
grass with their teeth. In August 1967, the Beijing press declared that
anti-Maoists were "rats that ran through the streets" and should all be
killed.
The Cultural Revolution was a mass folly never before seen in the
history of the world. The Red Guards arrested, tortured and executed
tens of thousands for praying, just listening to music, or feeding a do-
mestic animal. People were sent into a trance in which they supported
every manner of savagery; they would shout their support as they
watched people being mur-
dered. The Black Book of
Communism describes this
savagery in these words:
The whole people were
invited to public trials of
"counterrevolutionaries,"
who almost invariably
were condemned to
death. Everyone partici-
pated in the executions,
In Red China, political executions were
everyday occurrences. Many were accused
of "not following Mao's way" and executed
in the streets.