china

This has been an interesting and illuminating exchange on state
"socialism," its pluses and minuses.

In the course of more in-depth discussion of the USSR and Europe, China
comes up again, and again, it is asserted that terrible, terrible things
happened during the Cultural Revolution.

What were they?  What is the evidence?

The catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward is widely acknowledged -- Mao
himself acknowledged it.

But I would like to know exactly what are the claims about the Cultural
Revolution (how many are supposed to have died?), and what are the
sources.

Richard Hutchinson