Thank you, Marina, for this educative report on a very important phase of communist history.

Mao must have had second thoughts about it all when he initiated the Cultural revolution several years.

In that 1960's phase, he must have decided that a flowering of opinions among the young people would prove more beneficial than his trusting of the seasoned intellectuals in '57.

But the Cultural revolution turned out to be a nightmare just like the great leap forward turned out to be a disaster.

Eventually, Mao's fatally destructive experiments goto phased out when he died.

THank God for Deng Xiaoping. His reforms set China on a course toward a more reasonable iteration of "communism." If such a thing is even possible.

Thanks for your analysis of a very important development of 20th-century history.

Keep up the good work.