America's "Cultural Revolution" ?

[Hekate]

5. Yes, that would be the one. Picture #3 shows a dance corps from the Red Army...

One of my cousins married a woman who lived thru the era by joining a Red Army dance troupe and acting out propaganda on stage for the masses.

Picture #2 is some of the incredibly excited and worshipful young followers, holding Mao’s Little Red Book, getting primed to burn books, beat up scholars or other suspect elders, and destroy priceless national treasures.

As your extracts show, it was even more destructive than we in the US knew, and what we knew was awful. So when someone (can’t remember who) soberly said recently that what Trumpists and leaders of Project 2025 have in mind is an American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, I had to suppress a shudder.