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China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather

d to prison.5 • Public confessions: Humiliating public con- fessions of ideological crimes were a staple of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's purges and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China They were also employed by Eastern European sat- ellite regimes during the show trials of the late 1940s. A peculiarly

13255Nladimir-Pu in.says-there.was-nothintwrong-with- SoviebUnions7pact-with-Adolf-Hitlers-Nazi-Germanyhtml; Timothy Snyder. 'Putin's New Nostalgia," New York Review of Books, November 10, 20141 9. Reuters, Tulin: 'We Understand the Fatality of an Iron Curtain," Business Insider, November 23, 2014, http://www.businessins

Cultural Revolution and the decline and death of Mao Zedong in 1976, These congressional visits to Ch

rican Political Science Association. September 2018. Section 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020514 56 41 Link, Perry. “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.” New York Review of Books. April 11, 2002. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/04/11/china-the-anaconda-in-the-chandelier. 42 See Tiffert, Glenn. “Peering Down the Memory Ho

In China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as th

ing outright censorship, brought to bear on Russian historians during Soviet times and more recently during the Putin era. China: Evading the past Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward ranks among the most deadly politically inspired catastrophes in human history. From 1958 to 1962, Communist Party authorities, u

ficials have refused to acknowledge anything approaching the full dimen- sions of the tragedy. Nor have they admitted that the party, and especially Mao, were responsible. Often they blame the weather. There are no official monu- ments to the victims, no days of commemoration, no serious histories ava

5/Vladimir-Putin-says-there-was-nothing-wrong-with- Soviet-Unions-pact-with-Adolf-Hitlers-Nazi-Germany.html; Timothy Snyder, “Putin's New Nostalgia,” New York Review of Books, November 10, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/11/10/putin-nostalgia-stalin-hitler/. 9. Reuters, “Putin: ‘We Understand the Fatality of an lr