The People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s main newspaper, published a commentary in its Tuesday edition urging Chinese people to accept the party’s verdict on the Cultural Revolution, as the country approaches the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Mao Zedong’s brutal campaign to maintain the communist revolution. “The Cultural Revolution was wrongly launched by the leaders and exploited by a counterrevolutionary clique. It brought the grave disaster of internal turmoil to the party, country and people of every ethnicity....In no sense was it, or could it have been, revolutionary or socially progressive,” the newspaper writes. It also added that China “will not take the old path that is closed and stultified, nor will [it] take the errant path of changing our banner.” The piece’s publication breaks the Party’s policy of silence on the Cultural Revolution.
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