Tag: Red Guards

16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China when Mao releases the ‘May 16th Notification’

By the time the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976 an estimated minimum of 400,000 people had died through torture, execution, or suicide.

The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.