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soryang

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3. this sort of biased presentation imputes some sort of mythical status
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:58 AM
Jul 2021

...to the brutal feudal order imposed on Tibetan peasants by the Dalai Lama and the landlord class before the Communist takeover. Starving and illiterate peasants were kept in a state of miserable subjugation with maiming, blinding, dismemberment and other torture to enforce the corrupt rule of elite monks and landlords.

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this sort of biased presentation imputes some sort of mythical status soryang Jul 2021 #3
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