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The Maoist takeover of China 1949

Explaining History
Explaining History
Episode • May 14, 2019 • 25m
Following the end of a bloody civil war in China, the communist party began to rapidly seize the levers of power and create class categorisations for the population. Control of the police and a network of communist spies and informers began a wave of repression which was but a foretaste of catastrophes and horrors to come.

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