“In Mao’s defense, some of those 60 million were eaten by their fellow peasants to avoid death by starvation.”
Good point! 60,000,000 would be a lot of killing for just one guy! I guess you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs! Eh, comrade!? :)
I’ve always sort of looked at this like when the security guard has a heart attack when you rob a back. They still charge you with the murder, don’t they?
Well, I can’t speak to the cultural aspect of it because frankly those people are inscrutable, but Mao caused the famine that made those peasants hungry in the first place, so yeah.
But hey, they eat dogs and stuff to this day. And when I say “stuff”, I mean the part of the crawfish we throw away!