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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Nov 22, 2012 4:13 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)Parent article: Quotes of the week
When Mao said he wanted to see "a hundred flowers bloom," he wasn't serious. He just wanted to "entice the snakes out of their caves" (somehow, people don't remember this quote quite as much.) Many people were executed or condemned to prison labor camps as a result of falling for the chairman's ruse.
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Quotes of the week Posted Nov 22, 2012 9:38 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> When Mao said he wanted to see "a hundred flowers bloom," he wasn't serious.
Heh, my thought exactly. I'm not trying to be cynical, I just know a bit about Chinese history :) A better reference would be to the age of Hundred Schools of Thought:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Schools_of_Thought
And if we really want to be cynical, also including the fact, that it was a "period was fraught with chaos and bloody battles" ;) Let's just hope we won't see a Linux desktop's equivalent of Qin Shi Huang.
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