This Is The Most F—ed Up Thing I’ve Seen From China

I've heard a lot of crazy stories from China, but this one takes the cake. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. One of the most beautiful things about having children is having the opportunity to pass down your trauma to them. And no one quite has the trauma of the Chinese people. While the boomers were enjoying Woodstock, free love, and free vacations to Vietnam, Chinese people were locked in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. Chinese youth were burning down temples, beating their elders and denouncing them, not going to school because they were cancelled, and worshipping Mao Zedong. Good times. Here's a fun story from then. A boy accused his mother of criticizing Mao. They beat her, bound her, and led her from her home. She knelt before the crowds as they denounced her. Then they loaded her onto a truck, drove her to the outskirts of town, and shot her. I mean, childhood is traumatic for everyone. I once asked for Optimus Prime for Christmas and got Megatron instead. And I don't even have a death squad to report my parents to. Basically the same story. But now these kids are grown up and have children of their own, and they are soft. Always complaining, oh, there's no jobs. Or I don't like working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. I want to give up and start lying flat. There's no hope, boo hoo. Where's the can-do, I will have my parents publicly murdered spirit? And so their parents want to give them the best. They want to give them their childhood. Oh God, their childhood. They're paying to send their kids to hardship camps. It's like a fantasy camp, but one of those horrifying fantasies where everyone suffers. During the Cultural Revolution, around 16 million Chinese young people from the cities were sent down to the countryside. It was supposed to give them a taste of the life of the peasants Break them mentally and physically, which is what's happening to kids at these hardship camps. But unlike the Cultural Revolution youths who were sent to the countryside by the CCP, these kids have been sent to the countryside by their own parents to labor and farm and have mental breakdowns. Oh, just like their parents. Scream work makes the dream work. Images of these hardship camps are going viral in China, as children are subjected to back-breaking work and terrible conditions. And the parents couldn't be happier. Listen to this one quote. I'm too tired. I can't go on, Mom. I was wrong. I want to go home and study. Buddy. Oh. What's that? You want to study? Music to their parents' ears. Sure all it took was mentally and physically destroying their children, but they survived that, why shouldn't their kids? But this isn't just roughing it a bit. This is a form of torture that their parents paid for. And it's not just the Cultural Revolution these parents are fondly looking back at. Here are videos of kids being made to recreate the Long March, a disastrous military retreat of Mao's communist forces. It started out with about 100,000 people. By the end, only 8,000 were left. Kids love that kind of stuff. And yes, these cardboard boxes on their backs are labeled explosive packs. Duh. Aren't they just the cutest little suicide warriors? I feel like the Taliban is... Probably taking notes. Wow, the Red-Green Alliance really does make sense. Now, these hardship camps in Chinese are literally called eat bitterness camps. And it echoes something Xi Jinping has been saying to China's youth. His message is that the Chinese people's capacity for struggling, sacrificing, and withstanding hardship is central to what will lead China towards greatness. And this is because he, too, had a completely effed up life. I'm starting to think he's trying to grasp Taiwan because that's the closest he'll ever get to a hug. His father was purged, and Xi Jinping himself got sent to the countryside. Now he has this weird Stockholm Syndrome towards communism. Yes, today we got a little sympathy for the devil. Hurt people hurt people. From state-run media, farming, pulling coal, damming, picking dung. In the countryside, Xi Jinping did almost everything and ate almost everything. In one interview, Xi seemed to fondly recall the time, saying, I'd carry a 200-plus pound bag of wheat on a three-mile mountain road without even switching shoulders. That's the Chinese Communist version of, when I was in high school, I could bench 315 So across China, across Chinese society, you have these people who are looking back at the horror of their youths with rose-colored glasses, make that communist red glasses, and then looking at their kids and saying, you know what, they got it too easy. Let's send them down to the countryside and make them cry. Because parenthood isn't about trying to provide a better life for your kids than you received. It's about making those little ingrates pay. Which is why I'm going to bring this up again. We need a Nuremberg trial for communism. The Nuremberg trials were hearings held for Nazi German officials after World War II. All the crimes of the Nazis were put on display and exposed. Which is a big part of why typically you don't see people waving around Nazi flags anymore. If you live in a nice neighborhood. The same has to happen for communism. It should be as socially unacceptable to be waving around the hammer and sickle as it is to wave around the Nazi swastika. Either way, people who do this may just need a hug. This episode was only made possible thanks to the support of the China Uncensored 50 Cent Army, fans who support the show by subscribing to our website ChinaUncensored.tv. YouTube is trying to run us out of business by not showing people our videos. 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