Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Society was in chaos.
The country needed someone to help stem the bleeding.
Deng Xiaoping was a true communist patriot.
He served in the military and later wore many hats in the party.
In the 1950s, he served as vice premier and vice chair of the defense council.
He later served as the Communist Party's general secretary.
In the early 1960s, Deng embarked on a series of reforms to help China's economy recover after the famine and widespread death in the previous decade.
Because unlike Mao, who's considered the visionary, cult-like leader and dreamer of the party, Deng is different.
He's practical, realistic.
This is Dan Wang, a writer specializing in contemporary China and author of Breakneck, China's Quest to Engineer the Future.
Deng's pragmatic approach threatened Mao's project.
He was a valuable confidant, yes.
But Deng's ideas were pragmatic and growth-oriented.
And Deng earns a reputation for being a little too innovative for comfort.
Mao's rule and the communist project were paramount.
So, like the rest of China, Deng succumbed to Mao's rule.
In the late 1960s, Deng Xiaoping was removed from his political post and his political titles were stripped.
He and his family were sent far away.
Deng and his family are banished to work in that factory from 1969 to 1973.
They're forced to read Mao Zedong Thought.
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