50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution Met With Silence in China — TIME

(BEIJING) — The 50th anniversary of the start of China’s violent Cultural Revolution is passing without fanfare and has been almost completely ignored by the Communist Party-controlled media. On May 16, 1966, the party’s Politburo met to purge a quartet of top officials who had fallen out of favor with Communist leader Mao Zedong. The…

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