Posted on 08/14/2016 6:12:57 AM PDT by C19fan
In the People’s Republic of China, archives do not belong to the people, they belong to the Communist Party. They are often housed in a special building on the local party committee premises, which are generally set among lush and lovingly manicured grounds guarded by military personnel. Access would have been unthinkable until a decade or so ago, but over the past few years a quiet revolution has been taking place, as increasing quantities of documents older than 30 years have become available for consultation to professional historians armed with a letter of recommendation. The extent and quality of the material varies from place to place, but there is enough to transform our understanding of the Maoist era.
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Years ago I worked with a Chinese woman (born perhaps around 1960) who had (I’m told) the very Chinese habit of laughing when she was uncomfortable.
Anyway, for some reason we were talking about Pumpkins, which I (being a New Englander) associate with Thanksgiving and Pilgrims. This woman mentioned that they had many pumpkins in China. I told her I was very surprised to hear that. She said:
“In my village, we grow many pumpkins! My grandfather, he grow more pumpkins than anyone else!”
Then she burst out in laughter and added: “That’s why they killed him!”
Yet it is fashionable for college students in North America to sport Mao’s likeness on posters in offices and dorm rooms or t shirts. Very sick mindset indeed.
That’s quite illustrative. I despise Nixon for many reasons, but legitimizing Mao was his greatest sin. He spit on the graves of millions.
One thing to do is to look at the 45 million estimated dead in China between 1958 and 1962 due to the Great Leap Forward and put that figure up against Wikipedia’s “According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US”. This would include certainly both of Adam Lanza’s and James Holmes’ bloody rampages in Sandy Hook, CT and Aurora, CO respectively.
It would take approximately over 5000 years (or over 50 centuries) for the 2012 US firearms homicides number to equal the number that Mao and his civilian gun prohibiting government killed in just 4. Great way to deal with snowflakes who want gun ownership banned, IMHO.
Mao killed 45 million people by communist diktat.
Obama cabinet member Anita Dunn: “Mao is my favorite philosopher”.
When the Communists entered Shandong Province, they had been told by Mao that at least 10% of the people were hard-core capitalists, who had to be eliminated. But how to tell who was a capitalist?
It was decided - if you owned a pig, that set you apart. You were a capitalist.
If you owned two dogs, you were a rancher.
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