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The Chinese political
earthquake known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began in 1966.
This program explains the meaning and results of Mao’s slogan, "It's right
to rebel": Mao's unleashing of yet another movement (the last had been the
"Great Leap Forward"), this one to root out "bourgeois reactionaries" and
crypto-capitalists and destroy the "four olds"—old thoughts, old culture,
old customs, old habits; the rise of the Red Guards; the Cultural Revolution
as a bolster of Mao's political authority; Mao's famous 9-mile swim in the
Yangtze River; the personality cult of Mao; the challenge to the Soviet
Union. (20 minutes)
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