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The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution - I think you get much less scrutiny for criticising than celebrating this part of Mao's legacy - I know of one instance where somebody was arrested for making a big-character poster with 'the cultural revolution was good', for instance.

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Yes or no, Deng was obviously against the Cultural Revolution, but Xi isn't so.

Evidence: "The Two 'Cannot Negates'" - In English: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094609.2016.12... - In Chinese: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A9%E5%80%8B%E4%B8%8D%E8...

> The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution

No...

At maximum, "cultural revolutionaries" were just silenced for one generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping#Early_life_and_educ...

The bit where his sister committed suicide during the cultural revolution jumps out as sort of character forming, but in more general terms, do you have any chinese party sources praising the cultural revolution? The closest I can think of is the now vanished Bo Xilai.

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