I bet that you don’t even knew what was the culture revolution, stop repeating lies and open a book once in a while. Do knew how many people died on a daily basis before the revolution?
Before the revolution came to power in 1949, China had been dominated by foreign imperialist powers. By practically all-available measures, the economy was near the bottom of the world development scale. It had little industry. Agriculture was brutal serfdom. China had the most ruinous inflation in modern world history. It had a vast criminal underworld of gangsters and secret societies, and almost 90 million opium addicts. For women, it was a living hell: foot binding, arranged marriages, and child brides were widespread social practices. Prostitution was rampant in the cities. These kinds of social evils and the extreme polarization of wealth that existed before 1949 were eradicated by the revolution. China's socialist revolution of 1949-76 resulted in a vast improvement in life for the Chinese people. Between 1949 and 1975, life expectancy in socialist China more than doubled, from about 32 to 65 years. By the early 1970s, infant mortality rates in Shanghai were lower than in New York City All this reveals a profound reduction in the violence of everyday life. The extent of literacy swelled in the span of one generation--from about 15 percent in 1949 to some 80 to 90 percent in the mid-1970s
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