Let a thousand flowers bloom.
Well.....that was “let a hundred flowers bloom” which Mao announced in 1956 to entice opponents of the ChiCom regime to criticize it openly. Dissidents were rounded up & sent to labor camps by the thousands.
This was followed by the catastrophic backyard industrialization drive “Great Leap Forward” in 1958.
Mao was a mass murdering monster. Widely admired on our nation’s campuses.