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Episode 22 - THE 100 DAY WAR (MAY-JUN 1968)

Episode 22 - THE 100 DAY WAR (MAY-JUN 1968)

Update: 2024-07-05

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The Red Guard movement disintegrates and the Cultural Revolution goes off the rails as the "all-around civil war" between rebel movements reaches a violent shrieking crescendo when the two factions at Qinghua University, the "Harvard of China," go to war. Suicides and vigilante killings skyrocket across the nation. Can Mao save his revolution within a revolution, or have things gone too far?...

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Episode 22 - THE 100 DAY WAR (MAY-JUN 1968)

Episode 22 - THE 100 DAY WAR (MAY-JUN 1968)

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