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Even before Mao Tse-tung unleashed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Red China had managed to isolate itself from most of the world. The weird rampages of the Red Guards made the alienation virtually complete. As no other major nation in modern times, Red China stands alone, with other Communist countries possibly even more appalled by its actions than anyone else...
...aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...
Reaching into the past for the Guards, Mao had probably also reached into the past for his plan of action. He had brought terror of a new and terrible sort to his hapless land. Whether its reign would be brief, not even Mao could answer...
...example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...
...confusion-and the vio lence it was bound to provoke-represent a fissure within the top leadership? Perhaps. But the more likely explanation lay in the peculiar psychology of the Guards' creator. Years ago Mao reflected that a revolution is "not the same as inviting people to dinner or writing an essay or painting a picture. A brief reign of terror," he mused, was necessary to make a revolution work...