Was Mao Zedong a hero or villain?
Although this subjugation of traditional people and culture was terrible, it wasn’t enough for Mao. He also imposed his revolutionary zeal on China’s opera and film industries. Any work that wasn’t praising China’s new path was forbidden. In this way even the surviving art was just another form of pro-Mao propaganda. And so the Cultural Revolution caused the destruction of centuries of pre-Mao history that even after his death could never be replaced.
