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Speaking of the cultural revolution…
>Gramps be based PHD grad in the 50s in FUCKING CHINA Which was pretty amazing cause he grew up in middle of fucknowhere mountainsides rural China, not even a road lol.
>Gets purged for being intellectual, makes him go plant farms
>HAHA jokes on you he was born in a village that was right next ~10km to Mao's village
>Mao sends him to do labor in village handling trash and shit.
>hahah, jokes on you cause he had an EE major with Mechengineering lol.
>Fixes the entire villages electronics and builds a irregation system designed for them
>When Mao tried to starve the cities, their apartment block be only one that had food cause the villagers would travel a week to help him in exchange for him fixing their electronics.
Another one:
>Dad be like 6 yr old during Cultural revolution
>Shit rural citiy only had communal showers
>Knew a really stupid kid
>That day be in communal shower with that kid and a bunch of older parrents
>Kid suddenly shouts "PUT DOWN (Overthrow) CHAIRMAN MAO"
>Room is silent for half a second
>SNAFUmoment.jpg
>Dad's dad reacts fast and slaps the kid in the face, "How can you be so deluded? Only young people like you are ignorant"
>All the old men silently nod with approval including the local party Secretary
>Prob saved that kids life that day.
>Kid later goes on to try and climb high-voltage lines for some reason and dies (I think they dared him)
>toostupudtolive.jpg
>One parrent is shot after bombing the local headquarters
>Entire family and relatives are either shot or gulag'd.
Here's one before the civil war:
>Mum's side-Gramps be going to German church school for education
>Walks ten km for a fucking dinner
>Be like 1938, Nips bomb the town he living in
>Almost dies when bus he was on throws him over the top (He was riding on top of the bus cause no seats for poor motherfuckers)
>Bus get blown up.
>Don'tgiveafuck.jpg
>Goes back to city
>On way stopped by "volunteer" recruiters.
>Join the army "Dare to die corps (Suicide corps) Inb4 the sandniggs said they invented suicide bombing. We did it first to kill Jap tanks " or i'll shoot you
>Too poor to pay his way out, asks to see officer.
>Officer looks at him in the eye, then says "he's too weak to be of use"
>Almost looses it cause gramps be strongest guy in school lul
>Gramps let go, found out later that officer died in the defense of Wuhan during urban fighting.
>Starts to believe in actual religion
>MFW the rolemodel of the local communist party is secret religious man You could get shot for this back then.
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