There was a brief moment where children in several large cities organized in an attempt to fight back. Calling themselves Revenge for Our Parents, the students knew perfectly well that their families were innocent. Their youthful naivete is understandable but no less tragic. They issued a leaflet arguing against the mass arrest of so many loyal citizens—and then they were, of course, virtually all arrested themselves. Naturally so were their siblings and any remaining parents, in this case for having failed to denounce the pamphleteers for their counter-revolutionary activities.
