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Soon after, more and more brutal "atrocities" by the Red Guard took place.

atrocity /əˈtrɒsɪti/ noun plural noun: atrocities an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury. "a textbook which detailed war atrocities"

"Wikipedia has an internal policy which states that articles must be written from a neutral point of view, which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant points of view that have been verifiably published by reliable sources on a topic." 46.38.84.41 (talk) 07:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This policy was never meant to supersede fundamental morality. For example, articles on or relating to the Holocaust are going to give a negative portrayal of it regardless of how much objectivity is strived for, because mass murder is a fundamentally immoral thing and we are compelled to portray it negatively. The same is true for the atrocities, a perfectly fitting word, of Mao's regime. Mao Zedong directly killed more people than anyone else in human history-to refer to the many tyrannical actions he implemented that led to this as atrocities is not bias, but simply the stating of facts. General Lemarc (talk) 03:33, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]