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Shameless Modern Propaganda

posted 8 years ago by zwoopmugen
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To be honest, the chinese officer saying "religion is poison" got me thinking, so I decided to do a bit of research.

Here's a few facts
-Out of the 8500 tibetan soldiers, only a little over 100 died.
-Ngapoi Nwgawang Jigme was actually very progressive, and saw the chinese as a chance to bring progress to Tibet.
-5% of the Tibetan population served the Lamas
-Most of the population lived in serfdom; they were not free to leave or do as they pleased.
-Most of Mongolia follows Tibetan Buddhism

So. Any thoughts? Has anyone heard about how the lower classes lived in Tibet before and after the liberation/invasion?

[–] Jaguar_001 8 years ago

Please provide the source of your facts.

then we'll talk

[–] bastasch8647 8 years ago

the chinese officer saying "religion is poison"

Ummm...I don't recall that line being in this movie. It was however, spoken by the actor playing Mao Tse Tung in Martin Scorsese's Kundun.

[–] horsenbuggy 8 years ago

It is in this movie. After Mao takes office he sends three Bengals back to Tibet. They go to see the Dalai Lama before seeing the provisional leader (because the DL is still under 18). When they get to the DL, they approach one of those circular sand paintings and are told that it represents peace. The general walks right through it. After the audience where the DL was accommodating to them but reprimanded them that they should have gone to the other man first, the main general says this mine to the "progressive" minister outside the DL's building.

Of course, it's a movie script so there's no guarantee it all actually happened that way. But I don't doubt that those Chinese communists newly in power felt that way about religion.

[–] Duncan_Idaho02 8 years ago

The shameless propaganda is from the communist Chinese government. The fact so many weak minded people are not able to discern that the Chinese government puts out lies is a shame.

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[–] Imdb11168 8 years ago

The Chinese apologists have this one favourite argument

"Has anyone heard about how the lower classes lived in Tibet before and after the liberation/invasion?

........ the and actually justify this for the brutal genocide but no .... that's not important, the plight of the lower classes before they were raped, tortured and murdered is what is more important to them

Darkness lies an inch ahead

[–] vortexrider 7 years ago

Oh shut up. You are a shameless apologist for China's evil policies. You are trying to excuse the inexcusable crimes Chinese communists have done. You are trying to define China as one with its ruling government when in reality China is very ideologically diverse and not entirely pro communist. Your arguments are not different from arguments Nazis used, Russia's Putin uses today, same arguments Japanese invaders used. You cannot hide behind the ideology of communism which is pro peace and non aggressive on paper but which in practice has destroyed millions of people in the world and invaded dozens of countries.

So screw you and screw fascist Chinese communists.