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Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Kim Gordon and his parents were locked up for two years in a hotel in China in the 1960s. His parents had become targets of the Cultural Revolution despite being avid communists.
As a schoolboy in communist China, Kim Gordon took part in huge rallies to praise Chairman Mao. But when Mao's so-called Cultural Revolution began to target intellectuals and foreigners, Kim's British parents came under suspicion despite being convinced communists. When they tried to leave the country they were arrested with Kim and locked up in a hotel room for two years. Monica Whitlock has been listening to Kim's story.
Photo: Kim Gordon as a schoolboy in China. Courtesy of Kim Gordon.
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