Song Binbin, Red Guard whose beating to death of a teacher heralded Mao’s Cultural Revolution

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 02:10:03 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:26:23 1 week ago

Song Binbin, Red Guard whose beating to death of a teacher heralded Mao’s Cultural Revolution
The Telegraph, Yahoo ^ | 9/20/24 | Telegraph Obituaries

Posted on 09/22/2024 6:46:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural Revolution” when on August 18 1966 she was photographed overlooking an immense rally in Tiananmen Square, pinning a red armband, symbol of the Red Guards, on the arm of the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.

Two weeks earlier she had taken part in the murder of Bian Zhongyun, deputy principal of the Beijing high school she attended, one of the first – and one of the most notorious – of the murders that inaugurated a decade of slaughter in which between one and two million people were killed.

In 2014, however, Song’s public apology for her involvement in the murder – one of the most high-profile expressions of contrition by a former Red Guard – provoked a mixture of scorn and calls for a national reckoning for the suffering and carnage of 1966-76.

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aoc; demcrats; mao; nojustice; redchina; songbinbin

AOC's hero.

1 posted on 09/22/2024 6:46:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff

To: DallasBiff

What can be, unburdened by what has been...

Out with the four olds and in with the peoples revolution!!!

You better believe this is what they have in mind !!!

2 posted on 09/22/2024 6:51:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

To: DallasBiff

I have a friend who was at that school and witnessed this.

3 posted on 09/22/2024 6:52:06 PM PDT by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )

To: DallasBiff

Oh, but she’s sorry.

That’s more than we’ll ever get from America’s communists though.

4 posted on 09/22/2024 6:52:56 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)

To: DallasBiff

Honey Huang!

5 posted on 09/22/2024 6:53:13 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)

To: DallasBiff

My wife told me that the streets of Shanghai are full of elderly Red Guards. They’re mostly beggars now, homeless.

They ask passersby for donations, and everyone ignores them. No one wants to even look at them.

6 posted on 09/22/2024 6:53:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])

To: Chengdu54

I have a friend who was at that school and witnessed this.

That's crazy! Any details of interest?

7 posted on 09/22/2024 6:56:52 PM PDT by montag813

To: DallasBiff

Now she is a good communist.

To: DallasBiff

i still remember being told to clean my plate as Chinese children were starving...

9 posted on 09/22/2024 7:06:52 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)

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