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were deliberately left to starve until they handed over their produce to
communes and accepted the communist interpretation of production.
Those who opposed communism at a time when that practice cost mil-
lions of lives were inevitably eliminated. During the Cultural Revolu-
tion, which was aimed at the educated and intellectual sections of
society, all voices of opposition in China were silenced in the cruelest
possible manner. The Cultural Revolution began with Mao's instruction
that "There are still people at the highest levels of the state who have not

M ao's Cultural Revolution led to
savagery, the like of which
has seldom been seen any-
where before. The revolution's
particular targets were edu-
cated individuals and intellec-
tuals. The young people
known as the Red Guards
killed, often by torture in full
public view, people who failed
to carry Mao's Little Red Book
with them or who had not
learned communist anthems
by heart. In that period walls
were covered with the copies
of the Red Book to ensure that
people read its content.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar