“If you make the mistake of capitalism, you should not be criticized. But we should have self-criticism.”

—  Hu Yaobang

In 1980, during his inspection tour in Tibet, as quoted in Southern Mongolia: Self-Determination Activist Tortured in Prison and Kept Under House Arrest https://unpo.org/article/19652?id=19652

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