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30 August 1993 During the Chinese cultural revolution “healthy forces” paraded enemies of the people through the streets, so that the people could see their shame and the authorities’ decisiveness in fighting them and others like them. Wall papers were popular, they depicted the enemies as rats or an especially repulsive insect or reptile. For […]