China’s Cultural Revolution was hard on Xi Jinping. His father was purged, and at age 15, he was sent down to the countryside, where he spent years living and working as a peasant. Yet Mr Xi particularly dislikes public-handwringing about the decade-long period of violence and upheaval when more than a million people died. Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution ended, why do China’s leaders want to play down its horrors?
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