Cultural Issues: "Terrors of Brainwashing Ordeal"
Harold William Rigney is a priest that worked in China in the early 1950's and was captured as an American spy at the beginning of the Proletarian Revolution in China.
Rigney descibes that he was "subjected to the pocess of brainwashing," but "[he] was not brainwashed." In China, the use of brainwashing could be described as a simple "change of attitude [or] change of mind...from anti-communism to pro-communism."
As he suffered in the prison, officers and gaurds continuously harassed the him and other prisoners to "confess to their crimes". Methods of brainwashing were not always emotional deciet, critism, and humilation; there was often phyiscal toture and manipulation of the enviornment.
"Sometimes brutality...deprivation of food or sleep, and use of extreme teperatures [of the enviornment] were employed..."
The proper name for these prisons were Re-education Camps in which rightists or anti-communists were imprisoned to "learn the values of communism" ruled by Chairman Mao.Many of these prisoners were innocent in their crimes and never given proper trial.
Rigney descibes that he was "subjected to the pocess of brainwashing," but "[he] was not brainwashed." In China, the use of brainwashing could be described as a simple "change of attitude [or] change of mind...from anti-communism to pro-communism."As he suffered in the prison, officers and gaurds continuously harassed the him and other prisoners to "confess to their crimes". Methods of brainwashing were not always emotional deciet, critism, and humilation; there was often phyiscal toture and manipulation of the enviornment.
"Sometimes brutality...deprivation of food or sleep, and use of extreme teperatures [of the enviornment] were employed..."
The proper name for these prisons were Re-education Camps in which rightists or anti-communists were imprisoned to "learn the values of communism" ruled by Chairman Mao.Many of these prisoners were innocent in their crimes and never given proper trial.
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