Cultural Revolution?

Did the Cultural Revolution in China in the 60s, 70s and 80s have anything to do with destroying non-chinese items (such as violins)? Im doing a paper on "the red violin" movie and I was wondering why the violin was nearly destroyed while in China. Yes,I do know this was a fictional movie, but was that whole ordeal in china an actual thing that happend in history? Details please

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The CR started in Oct, 1966 and ended in Oct, 1976. Indeed, The CR was threatening China for ten years. In the beginning, destructive groups such as Red Guards and The CR Authority grasped the power, and China drove into the severe confusion. But passing the time, the people got to doubt the CR. And finally, ten-year tragedy came to an end in 1976.

The CR had a great impact on a lot of the peole and each field like economy. Especially, a great number of students were used as Red Guards, and they lost their own time. And the CR had impact on the other countries.

In the early of 1980s, the CR was formally considered as wrong and Gang of Four was judged on trial. During the CR, the number of the people who were persecuted to death were uncountable, and the damage on the mind of the Chinese is beyond words.

Red Guards attacked all traditional values (religions, chinese rites, all things cultural- chinese operas, plays, etc) and "bourgeois" things (western stuff, like violins, piano, western books, paintings, etc) and to test party officials by publicly criticizing them. The movement quickly escalated; many elderly people and intellectuals were not only verbally attacked but were physically abused. Many died. The Red Guards splintered into zealous rival factions, each purporting to be the true representative of Maoist thought. Mao's own personality cult, encouraged so as to provide momentum to the movement, assumed religious proportions. The

resulting anarchy, terror, and paralysis completely disrupted the urban economy. Industrial production for 1968 dipped 12 percent below that of 1966.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzax4KkQ4...

*** the leader for the gang of four' is jiang qing, wife of chairman mao's. the communist government is quick to alienate chairman mao's hand in the CR, as he is highly revered in china.

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OMG, the cultural revolution back in 60's was a dreadful and hideous event orchestrated by this mass-murderer Mao Tzedong. It was not only a matter of destroying non-chinese items, rather a fiendish will to destroy ALL culture in China, and bringing proud and decent Chineses to being kneeled down to slavery. You might allow yourself a wry smile at the fuss created by hanging Saddam, when Mao died quietly in his bed having commited crimes orders of magnitude way above Saddam's.