[LongElegantLegs]

"When someone is responsible, and I believe he was, for upwards of 30 million deaths, it's hard to defend him," Teiwes added. "But on the other hand, to paint him as a totally monstrous personality who just goes out to kill people and protect his power at all cost is not only over the top but a bit crazy in terms of what actually went on."

idiot.

[SunkenCiv]

"The Maoist story of the battle was a lie, and a huge exaggeration but there was a battle," Tsang said. Above all, Tsang insists, Chiang Kai-shek did not on this occasion or, as far as the Chiang Kai-shek papers reveal, on any other occasion let the Red Army escape during the Long March. Tsang said that in this case, as generally in the book, the authors had been "appallingly dishonest" in the use of sources they claimed to have accessed. "Mao was a monster," Tsang said. "(But) their distortion of history to make their case will in the end make it more difficult to reveal how horrible Mao and the Chinese Communist Party system were, and how much damage they really did to the Chinese people."

Maybe that's the intention -- to make it more difficult to reveal the monstrousness of Mao and his hideous regime.