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(S+) Time travel – Der SPIEGEL 50 years ago: »I want to be a tiny little screw«

2022-08-11T23:20:50.391Z


The CDU politician Gerhard Schröder traveled to China in 1972 for the purpose of rapprochement. SPIEGEL reporter Hermann Schreiber looked for Mao's "new people" there - and found children who could give well-rehearsed short lectures.


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1971 in China: Students, workers and soldiers with the Mao Bible, a little red book with words from the »Great Chairman«

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