Essay On Oppression In China

Oppression has been shown all throughout world history. From the Japanese internment camps to the judgment of Muslim Americans, it still exists today. Usually, there is a leader, a head of the snake, that controls and influences this oppression. In the case of the Holocaust in Germany, Hitler was the ruler. In the Cultural Revolution in China, it was Mao who was the manager. Hitler and Mao are similar in their styles of leading because both wanted total world control, both used children to help build their country’s power and influence the minds of the next generations, and both exploited and abused certain groups of people based on certain criteria.
First of all, the idea of total control has been an idea all throughout history, and it can

Especially in the case of Mao and Hitler who felt it would be best to make this new world they pictured in their minds best by removing certain types of people from their country. So, Hitler chose to remove the Jews primarily and most well know although he removed (killed), or used for forced labor, anyone who wasn’t in a certain range of the “dominant” Aryan race. “They watched the Jews come down the road like a catalog of collectors. … When they arrived in full, the noise of their feet throbbed on top of the road. Their eyes were enormous in their starving skulls,” (Zusak, 391). Hitler forced the Jews that he caught to march for miles, to their death, or labor camps. Mao did something similar by either humiliating, torturing, or killing the people he chose. “ The first one was landlords, the second, rich peasants, the third counter-revolutionaries, the fourth, bad elements, the fifth rightists, the sixth, traitors, the seventh, former agents, the eighth, capitalist roaders, the ninth… intellectuals,” (3:04-3:24). Mao and Hitler both picked who they wanted to oppress, but Mao targeted more groups with more severe punishments than Hitler, although, both executed their