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thought reform

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Source Word

thought reform

Noun

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Individual ideological indoctrination, especially that conducted in Communist China under Mao Zedong.

Japanese Meaning

個人に対するイデオロギーの強制的改変、すなわち思想統制、特に毛沢東時代の中国で行われた個々人への思想改造を指す

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During the 1950s, many intellectuals were subjected to thought reform that aimed to align their beliefs with Maoist ideology.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

1950年代、多くの知識人は毛沢東のイデオロギーに自らの信念を合わせることを目的とした思想改造（イデオロギーの個人洗脳）を受けた。

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Individual ideological indoctrination, especially that conducted in Communist China under Mao Zedong.

Although working prisoners to exhaustion was apparently not part of thought reform procedures, hard labor is well known to have been utilized in prisons and concentration camps elsewhere.

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