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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

watch on to the ground if I had had one in my hand.

I’m very loyal to Chairman Mao. I am willing to

follow Chairman Mao and to be a part of the

revolution all my life.” I bared my heart again and

again. I was terribly frightened. It was a time when

everybody had to be very careful with his tongue and

what he did. If anyone spoke one word out of place

or did even one improper thing, they would get into

trouble, let alone such a crime as throwing

Chairman’s book on the ground. Chairman Mao was

regarded as the greatest leader, the savior of the

Chinese people, and the Red Sun in Chinese people’s

hearts. If anybody said anything against him or did

anything against him, he could be immediately

thrown into prison. If I was testified to be throwing

Chairman Mao’s book on to the ground deliberately,

that would be the end of me. I would immediately be

labelled as a counter-revolutionary. I could be

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