Word: armbands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been but a ruse to tar him as a fellow counterrevolutionary, he reasoned. He convinced himself that the manner in which the old man fell to his knees...