History Repeats Itself

The popular online history teacher Yuan Tengfei (袁腾飞） has been sanctioned according to official media. His popular online videos have been deleted and he has been forbidden from continuing his online history teaching.
Yuan has compared Mau's mausoleum with the yasakuni shrine, and said that there should be a monument in Tiananmen Square to the victims of the Chinese regime from 1949 to 1978. He as compared China's spending on nuclear weapons development during the 1960s famine which killed over 30 million people with the present regime in North Korea. (According an estimate in Jung Chang's biography of Mao, had that money being spent on food instead, it could have prevented all those famine deaths.)
Yuan was initially promoted by Party media who liked his popularisation of history study. The timing of this censorship seems to be connected to his plans to publish a book which has attracted attention from his critics who have publicised his dissident views.
The episode echoes the treatment of history professor Yuan Weishi (袁伟时）who questioned the official version of the Boxer Rebellion in an article which led to the closing of Freezing Point magazine in 2005。
Yuan's lectures are still available on youtube