Mao's Power Techniques
Because the people of Russia and China have different cultures, and the people of China tended to have more collectivist personalities, Mao didn’t have to resort to terror as much as he resorted to repression. People in Asian societies are extremely concerned about the concept of “saving face”, so people who were condemned of being anti-Communist were subject to fines or labor camps, but often committed suicide in order to escape from the humiliation, showing that Mao didn’t have to use terror to control his people. This concept of labor camps was also used by Stalin. Mao used the concept of making punishment public in order to make an example of the person being punished, in order to suppress the rest of the population.
The Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was an attempt to enforce communism and socialism by removing all Western aspects of society in China, a plan put in place by Mao. This came into place after the Great Leap Forward failed. What had intended to remove such Western aspects turned into a purge of Mao's political opposition (similar to Stalin's Purges) and was the intensifying of the growth of Mao's personality cult, also similar to Stalin. Close to 2,000 people died in Beijing in 1966 alone. Below is a video shown of how Mao indoctrinated the young people in his call for violence in the country. Today, the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution are either ignored or made to be non-existent in China by government officials.