The "Cut Shoe Team" With No Laughing Matter.

Red guards during the Cultural Revolution

In the early days of the cultural revolution, "breaking the four old and setting up four new" was the first thing to do to clean up the "bourgeois ideology" and "petty bourgeois ideology".

As soon as he discovered that his leather shoes were slightly convex, he said, without mentioning, he picked up the picket stick and rushed to the front to order them to take off their shoes and bare their feet. The red guards removed the slightly convex parts of leather shoes with a knife.

People used to dress simply and not luxurious.

The red guards set up the "chopping shoes" fighting team to set up inspection posts on the streets and lanes.

They closely watched the passers-by. Once they found their leather shoes were slightly convex, without mentioning them, they picked up the picket sticks and rushed forward to order them to take off their shoes and bare their feet.

The red guards removed their leather shoes with their knives and raised them slightly, which made them embarrassed by the law enforcement officials. When they were in public, they lowered their heads to repent and admit their mistakes. Finally, they walked home with their shoes chopped off by their heads.

Why do we need to cut shoes?

At that time, pointed shoes were capitalist.

Therefore, leather shoes must not be sharp, but sharp points must be cut.

The mention of the "chopping shoes team" in the Cultural Revolution really made the old men and women looked scared when they were "law enforcement".