- Aluminum Christmas Trees: The Boxers being brainwashed into fanatics, willing to march into gunfire from foreigners, dying en-masse for no reason? That was actually based on real-life indoctrination inflicted on the recruits, which they're trained to follow since they're in their teens.
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