In 1960's China, "The Cultural Revolution" unleashed
untold violence and death on millions of Chinese who were considered traitors
to the cause of the Communist Party. In the wake of the "Great Leap Forward," which killed
by some estimates as many as 50 million Chinese and which was a great example
of an "oxymoronically" named campaign, Mao decided that there were too many
traitors in China's midst. The traitors, or counter-revolutionaries as Mao
dubbed them, needed to be excised from society for the good of the country.
