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Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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Cultural Revolution-era posters.

01/23/2021 Mark Tarrant

CCP holocaust Day Should Be Commemorated on October 1: A Proposal

The Chinese Communist Party killed at least 70 million innocent victims. An international day of commemoration should remember them every year.

Forbidden Memory. Tibet during the Cultural Revolution - book cover

08/02/2020 Massimo Introvigne

“Forbidden Memory”: A Book Reveals the Horrors of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

Tsering Woeser miraculously found and published hundreds of pictures of the most infamous decade in Tibetan history. We can now meditate on their tragic lesson.

The elderly priest form Xi’an was ordered to cut his “cow nose.”

06/21/2020 Tang Zhe

Cultural Revolution Returns: Everything Religious is Purged

From crosses on graves to traditional Buddhist and Taoist attire and even signboards of martial art schools—all religious symbols and names ordered to be removed.

stage performance in China

01/27/2020 Wang Yong

Plays Slandering Religion Indoctrinate Villagers All Over China

As a propaganda tool, stage performances have been used since the Cultural Revolution to vilify CCP’s enemies, including religions, in the eyes of the masses.

Chanisheff (left) and her husband, Latif and their two children

08/07/2019 Ruth Ingram

The Land Drenched in Tears: In Xinjiang, It’s the Cultural Revolution—Again

A moving, timely book. The  harrowing memoir of a young Tatar Muslim medical student describes the horrific life under the Cultural Revolution in Xinjiang. She says what is happening today is even worse.

Religious words have been removed from this church

03/20/2019 Zhou Hua

New Cultural Revolution: Religious Connotations Banned

Any words that might suggest religion are removed and replaced by secular, Party propaganda in China, as the regime continues defensive measures to “ensure stability.”

Commemoration of the Expansive Study of the Fengqiao Experience on its 55th Anniversary.

12/27/2018 Jiang Tao

Fengqiao – a Maoist Revival to Attack Religion

Cultural Revolution technique revived from the 1960s pits masses against masses, brother against brother, faith against faith, to control belief.

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