Mostly commentary interviews of survivors and former party cadres (officials)
Estimated ~45 million perished
Pretty good documentary. Very cool to have survivors interviewed.
And very brave of them to speak out when it might mean they get disappeared. As stated in the beginning it was difficult to get those interviews but she did an incredible job
Back in the 1960s the US government tried to pretend that “Red China” didn’t exist and the Nationalist Chinese government was the only representative of all the Chinese people. This meant that the only version of the story people heard was Mao’s, and he was seen by man as a benevolent and popular leader.
The American government tried to suppress the truth, and ended up making Mao popular with American college students
Just watched this last night and learned a lot. I thought it was very well done and crammed a lot of information into a tight runtime.
Chinese people can’t catch a break.
