caramelpence
8th June 2011, 12:46
An anecdote from the Cultural Revolution:
Another goal of the radicals was the dismissal of Foreign Minister Chen Yi, who like Tan Zhenlin, made no attempt to hide his acerbic attitude toward the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard movement. In one widely circulated possibly apocryphal account, Chen Yi responded to an unpleasant encounter with one group of Red Guards by waving his own copy of the little red book, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, and saying "Now it's my turn. Allow me to quote for you from Chairman Mao, page 320. Chairman Mao said 'Chen Yi is a good and faithful comrade.'" It was up to the Red Guards to discover that the Chinese edition of the Quotations had no such page.
I will give rep to the first person who manages to trick RedSunRising in another thread by making up a fake Mao quote.
Another goal of the radicals was the dismissal of Foreign Minister Chen Yi, who like Tan Zhenlin, made no attempt to hide his acerbic attitude toward the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard movement. In one widely circulated possibly apocryphal account, Chen Yi responded to an unpleasant encounter with one group of Red Guards by waving his own copy of the little red book, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, and saying "Now it's my turn. Allow me to quote for you from Chairman Mao, page 320. Chairman Mao said 'Chen Yi is a good and faithful comrade.'" It was up to the Red Guards to discover that the Chinese edition of the Quotations had no such page.
I will give rep to the first person who manages to trick RedSunRising in another thread by making up a fake Mao quote.