{
  "id": 6852821,
  "title": "China's former Red Guards reflect on their responsibility and regret: 'We were deceived'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/chinas-former-red-guards-reflect-on-their-responsibility-and-regret",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-11T17:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/11/china-s-former-red-guards-reflect-on-their-responsibility-and-regret-we-were-deceived_6757432_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'Mao's Fraught Legacy' (3/7). Seeking to restore his challenged legitimacy, Mao Zedong called for a Cultural Revolution in 1966. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party relied on young people, unleashing a wave of violence to suppress all opposition. Some Red Guards later said they felt manipulated.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}