Cultural Revolution
Tarot based on Cultural Revolution propaganda posters from 1960s-70s.
creator unknown · Self Published 2015 Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 78 Major Arcana: 22 Minor Arcana: 56 Card Language : English Rating: stars out of five Where to · 2015
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The record
This deck is based on the art of propaganda posters from the late 60s-early 70s, dealing with the Cultural Revolution era in China. Some cards are fairly clearly taken almost verbatim from these posters, but there is no shortage of images which could not in any way be seen as pro-revolution propaganda; the deck covers the full range of tarot symbolism and the bad cards are just as bad as those of any other deck. There are cards showing violence, viciousness, tragedy, starvation hardly the glorification of the Cultural Revolution that has been suggested by some of this decks detractors. In the accompanying leaflet, the creators do discuss the fact that while the Cultural Revolution was in many ways not a bad thing unless you happen to believe that communism is a sin, which I dont (and let us not forget that the Dalai Lama himself recently said that he was a Marxist and that he regarded Mao Zedong as a friend, saying Mao was like a father to him) - it also led in some cases indirectly to deaths and destruction. It seems to me a fairly accurate representation of the times an ideological one with tremendous hopes, some of which paid off and some of which ended disastrousl
The cards
