The Ten-Year Catastrophe
1976年复旦大学邯郸校区围墙上的红字标语
“用鲜血和生命保卫党中央！” “用鲜血和生命保卫毛主席！”
“反党分子”习仲勋 挂牌游街
“反革命修正主义分子”彭德怀 “坐土飞机”押至大会审判
1966年，摄影师李振盛在哈尔滨的一座体育馆参加了一场批斗会。
一名党委书记和同样身为干部的妻子受到了批判，两人身上还被泼了墨水。
这样的批斗会每天都在全中国各地密集地发生 。
手持“红宝书”的红卫兵们聚集在广场
1966年北京天安门广场上的一场庆祝活动 《人民画报》1966年第11-12期
文化大革命（1966—1976）是毛泽东为巩固个人权力、清除政敌而发动的全国性政治运动，号称“破四旧、立四新”。运动中大批干部、知识分子遭批斗，社会秩序崩溃，经济与教育陷入瘫痪，文化遗产被严重破坏，造成数百万人冤死，国家陷入十年动荡。
作者：钟然
编辑：罗志飞 责任编辑：鲁慧文 翻译：鲁慧文
The Ten-Year Catastrophe
In 1976, red slogans on the wall of Fudan University’s Handan Campus read:
“Defend the Party Central Committee with our blood and lives!”
“Defend Chairman Mao with our blood and lives!”
“Anti-Party element” Xi Zhongxun paraded through the streets with a placard hung on him.
“Counterrevolutionary revisionist element” Peng Dehuai was “flown” on a “soil airplane” (a humiliating stress position) to a mass rally for trial.
In 1966, photographer Li Zhensheng attended a public denunciation rally in a sports stadium in Harbin.
A Party committee secretary and his wife, also a cadre, were publicly criticized, with ink splashed on them.
Such denunciation rallies took place intensively every day across China.
Red Guards holding “Little Red Books” gathered in public squares.
A celebration event at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1966. People’s Pictorial, 1966, Issues 11–12.
The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was a nationwide political movement launched by Mao Zedong to consolidate his personal power and eliminate political rivals, under the banner of “Smash the Four Olds and Establish the Four News.” During the movement, large numbers of officials and intellectuals were publicly denounced, social order collapsed, the economy and education fell into paralysis, and cultural heritage suffered devastating destruction. Millions died unjustly, plunging the country into a decade of turmoil.
Author: Zhong Ran
Editor: Luo Zhifei
Executive Editor: Lu Huiwen
Translation: Lu Huiwen
