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05/13/11(Fri)01:54 No.4460340>>4460272
Indeed.
Many believe that Mao and the Party's rise to power was due to, in
part, the extreme country-wide trauma from what was done to them by the
Japanese. I wouldn't attribute the brutality of the Great Leap Forward
or the Cultural Revolution *solely* to the Japanese, but a lot of it had
to do with that. I'd also point out that the Japanese were attempting
to enslave a sovereign nation who they thought to be racially inferior
to themselves, while Mao really thought he was going to be helping his
own people. He was just crazy enough to believe the Great Leap Forward
would work, and too powerful for anyone to tell him he was wrong. There
are a number of Cultural Revolution era operas and films that feature
Communist heroes fighting against the Japanese in the 40s, protecting
the people from them - it was a kind of collective fantasy people still
had in the 60s. The Japanese occupation was a serious cultural trauma
that did factor strongly in the subsequent years of fanatic communist
rule.
>>4460305 Well,
no. There's nothing inherently good about basically any country as a
whole, because every single country has, at one time, or another
violated human right, committed war crimes, sold their people's right
for gains in the international political playground, etc. I'm pretty
anti-nationalism in general, which I realize is an extreme view. It's
exacerbated in the case of weaboos, because their nationalism is for a
country that isn't even theirs. From my perspective, that's one of the
big reasons why it's a special brand of crazy. |