Mai’s “accomplishments” may be ignored by the MSM but are not being ignored by Google AI:
Question: How many people was Mao Zedong responsible for killing?
Google AI Answer:
Historians estimate that Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of 40 million to 80 million people through state-sponsored violence, forced labor, and man-made famines during his rule of China from 1949 to 1976.
According to historical research and records, the vast majority of these deaths occurred as indirect or direct results of radical economic and political campaigns:
The Great Leap Forward (1958–1962): This industrial and agricultural campaign caused the deadliest man-made famine in human history (the Great Chinese Famine). Historians like Frank Dikötter and other demographic studies estimate that between 30 million and 45 million people starved, were beaten, or were worked to death.
Political Purges and Executions (1949–1950s): Early campaigns to eliminate landlords, “counterrevolutionaries,” and political dissidents resulted in several million executions.
The Laogai (Prison Labor Camps): Millions of people passed through China’s “reform through labor” camp system, where deaths from exhaustion, malnutrition, and abuse are estimated to range between 4 million and 25 million over the course of his regime.
The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976): The social and political chaos unleashed during this decade led to widespread purges, forced suicides, and violent persecutions, with death toll estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to several millions directly, and higher figures when counting the broader societal collapse