Everything was better under communism. That is why millions of minorities around the world would risk their life to sneak into China or Cuba. /S
Yikes...
Wow. So apparently that we forgot that the government imposed abortions resulted in a disproportionately high number of girls being aborted. That’s feminism for ya alright.
Who will win that fight? Sharia or commies?
Sure, maybe the Chinese abort most of their female children, but the few who do survive are totally empowered!!!
“Mao Zedong”
Correct pronunciation: Mousey Dung.
Learn it.
What? Kill all the girls?
By instituting a one child policy the outcome was hundreds of thousands of little girl babies left to die in the fields. How is that feminism?
Yeah all the millions of baby girl babies killed is sure a GREAT accomplishment for feminists.....
Mao killed more than Stalin, who killed more than Hitler.
But since the Slimes was instrumental in covering up Stalin’s murders, they shouldn’t drop the ball now.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040
After 70 years a Pulitzer committee is reexamining Walter Duranty’s Stalin whitewashes in the New York Times. How bad were they? See for yourself.
12:40 PM, Jun 12, 2003 | By Arnold Beichman
AT LONG LAST a Pulitzer Prize committee is looking into the possibility that the Pulitzer awarded to Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent whose dispatches covered up Stalin’s infamies, might be revoked.
In order to assist in their researches, I am downloading here some of the lies contained in those dispatches, lies which the New York Times has never repudiated with the same splash as it accorded Jayson Blair’s comparatively trivial lies:
“There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.”
—New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.”
—New York Times, August 23, 1933
He did great things for women.
Like killing an entire generation of them under the One Child policy.
I’m glad this story referenced Frank Dikötter’s book on Mao’s mid-1950s Great Leap Forward and the subsequent economic collapse and mass starvation.
I read “Mao’s Great Famine” maybe two years ago and it was a real eye-opener about a topic little known to Americans.
Dikötter estimates the death toll at about 45 million, if I recall correctly, which is high compared to other historians’ estimates. But his book is well-sourced, detailed, and entirely credible.
Millions died for no reason other than the power lust and, even more, the rank incompetence of the Chicom leadership. Agricultural policy was being decided by Marxist ideologues who had not the slightest concept of how crops were raised.
Dikötter explains that a typical scenario would be for the national leadership to establish a quota of X units of rice to be requisitioned by the central government. The provincial leadership, wanting to show their dedication to Mao, would up the ante to 2X. The district leadership then would show their loyalty by going for 3X.
And so on and so on ... until there was nothing left for the peasants to eat but grass.
I have no idea about Dikötter’s personal politics, but I’ve read enough history to get a sense of who has an agenda to push and who is trying to render an accurate historical report.
By all means read this author.
I suppose I should put a warning on that article.
If half of it is true, Mao was no feminist icon, to say the least.
China:
WWII Combat deaths: 6,400,000 - Kinder
Mao by starvation: 1958-1961 = 38,000,000
Mao by murder: 1923-1949 = 3,466,000
1949-1987 = 35,236,000
Total: 1923-1987 = 76,702,000