The Real Story of Chairman Mao | Best Mao Zedong Documentary

The founding father of Modern China, Mao Zedong would transform his country from an impoverished, divided nation, into a world power. But this progress was brought about at a terrible cost. Mao would enforce his policies through fear, violence, and the destruction of individual thought, cementing the Chinese Communist Party or CCP as the sole rulers of some 500 million people. During the Cultural Revolution he would mobilise an entire generation of Chinese youth known as Red Guards to kill in his name, building a state where he was worshipped like a God. Purges were soon launched to eliminate undesirable elements of society, such as landlords and capitalists, with millions being executed, driven to suicide, or sent to work camps known as laogai, where they would be re-educated through labour and subject to thought reform, psychological techniques designed to destroy their previous identity. The Red Guards were also instructed to purge the last elements of traditional Chinese society