In this rare interview from 2004, Xi Jinping, then Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province, described his early years in Yan’an when he was an “educated youth” ...
Xi was part of the "educated/priviledged urban youth sent to the countryside to do work and be re-educated by living and helping with the peasantry " policy during the CR . It was a correct in general touching grass campaign but wasnt directly about red guards ( tho a big part of them were included)
It had bad and good parts, but ultinately getting the Red Guards to touch grass cooled the CR enough to stop things spiralling apart.
Xi was part of the "educated/priviledged urban youth sent to the countryside to do work and be re-educated by living and helping with the peasantry " policy during the CR . It was a correct in general touching grass campaign but wasnt directly about red guards ( tho a big part of them were included)
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