Epstein Secrets

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

ns:* New York Times, March 9, 2016, b0p.Nwww nytimpc rom/2016/11q/101wnrkliacia/r hinA•niaws-ccincnrship.two-sessionc.htmL 20. Michael Forsythe and Austin Ramzy. 'China Censors Mentions of Panama Papers Leaks:New York Times, April 5, 2016, WW1 21. Emil Fen: 'China Blocks Economist and Time Websites. A rentl

"offer a striking picture of how the hidden machinery of the Chinese state carried out the country's most far-reaching internment campaign since the Mao era," they wrote. "Striking" is about right. "Round up everyone who should be rounded up," exhorted a Chinese official regarding the internment goa

rcy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims," read the headline on the Nov. 16, 2019, story by New York Times reporters Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley. The piece drew from 400-plus pages of Chinese documents that "offer a striking picture of how the hidden machinery of the Chinese

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

ons,” New York Times, March 9, 2016, http://www.nytimes. com/2016/03/10/world/asia/china-news-censorship-two-sessions.html. 20. Michael Forsythe and Austin Ramzy, “China Censors Mentions of ‘Panama Papers Leaks,” New York Times, April 5, 2016, http:// www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/world/asia/china-panama-papers.h

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