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    Chairman Mao on Chili peppers:

    At a banquet, Chairman Mao entertained the Soviet delegation, and he asked an interesting question: “Should we be loyal to the red watch represented by communism?” So as a red believer, who wants to join my chili party? "

    He once said: "It can be said that people who engage in revolution can basically eat spicy.

    “If you don’t eat chili peppers, you won’t have a revolution.”

    In July 1936, Mao Zedong entertained the American journalist Edgar Snow in Yan’an. Of course, the dishes served were not without chili peppers. Mao Zedong was happy for a while, so he sang a Hunan folk song “Chili Pepper Song” for the guests

    You can’t be a revolutionary if you don’t eat chilies.

    Critical reading for every communist

    (I am pretty sure 3 of these are different translations of the same quote but I loved all of them enough to include them)