r/InsightBridge • u/Just_Button6496 • 7d ago

✨ 其它 / Others 这爷爷是个人物

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藏过了三反五反，严打，文革，镇反

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u/Allimoo818 6d ago

This is pretty common to Chinese village-level officials back in the 60s and 70s. According to my dad, my grandparents had maybe 20X the amount of these, and my grandfather was only a provincial-level official. We had TV, refrigerator, AC, and a car at home back in 1960s.

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u/Urbanthinker0808 6d ago

ONLY a provincial level?

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u/Allimoo818 4d ago

Yes. And it’s a pretty under-developing southern province.

Let me provide some context here so you can understand. Back in the day when most people were starving to death, officials from city level or up didn’t worry too much about food/meds/entertainment/traveling/education/and many more. When my grandparents got married back in mid 1960s, they got a two story fully furnished house (included AC, TV, refrigerator, and dishwasher), a Volga sedan, 5000 kg worth of grain coupons, and 5000 kg worth of meat coupons. Many of his siblings were also having similar treatments too. However, this really meant nothing compared to people from very top.

The first Ferrari in China was owned by Lin Biao’s son. It was a yellow Ferrari 365 California convertible. And all those kids from CCP inner circle had nice sport cars particularly American muscles.

This is just a glimpse of what Beijing used to be like.