In this installment of Harry's Lunchbox, a recurring video segment in which Harry Wu discusses life under Communism and in the Laogai, Harry talks about his participation in Chairman Mao's campaign to rid China of squirrels.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 15:43.
When I was at the age of 11 the headmaster of our school had a movie, that the whole school needed to see.
The movie was about China and Mao Zedong had declared the sparrow as an enemy of China because it was eating their food.
I saw people playing music instruments on tall buildings, everywhere people where chasing the sparrow so the poor bird would die of tiredness.
Truckloads of dead sparrows where collected, a year later I gave a speech about the long march in China, Mao was a popular man in Holland, he did not had the bad press like Stalin.
Years later I heard that the crops in China failed because the insects had lost their natural enemy the sparrow.
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When I was at the age of 11 the headmaster of our school had a movie, that the whole school needed to see.
The movie was about China and Mao Zedong had declared the sparrow as an enemy of China because it was eating their food.
I saw people playing music instruments on tall buildings, everywhere people where chasing the sparrow so the poor bird would die of tiredness.
Truckloads of dead sparrows where collected, a year later I gave a speech about the long march in China, Mao was a popular man in Holland, he did not had the bad press like Stalin.
Years later I heard that the crops in China failed because the insects had lost their natural enemy the sparrow.
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