Dear Soldiers, It is Christmas and you are far from home, suffering from cold not knowing when you will die. The big shots are home enjoying themselves, eating good food, drinking good liquor, why should you be here risking you life for their profits? The Koreans and Chinese don’t want to be your enemies. Our enemies and yours are those who sent you here and destroyed your happiness. Soliders! Let’s join hands! You belong back home with those who love you and want you back, safe and sound. So we wish you…

  • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    Lol the director of this made another film about his “disillusionment” with the PRC and the Tiananmen square “massacre”. Absolute :brainworms: but this looks really interesting

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      3 years ago

      The guy basically saw what the cultural revolution and Deng were doing and wanted them to keep going, while the modern CPC mostly sees the cultural revolution as a mistake and Deng as having leaned too far right. Makes sense that he would move to America in the 90s.

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        3 years ago

        Yeah, it’s be hard to think Dengism wasn’t gonna just end in capitalism at the time. Especially with the USSR collapsing/having just collapsed. We have the luxury of seeing that it actually did work.