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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

?? What world are you from???


8 posted on 07/14/2020 6:09:52 AM PDT by griffin
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To: griffin
?? What world are you from???

Not sure the context from which you are asking this question.

Mao was a evil man, who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. However, his single most deadly act, imposing the Great Leap Forward, was a bureaucratic act. Mao decreed collectivization of agriculture and would not budge from that path. Local officials would not dare challenge his faulty assumptions, and a famine that killed 30-55 million people resulted.

Compared to that bureaucratic atrocity, the Chinese Civil War killed 2-3 million, his inaction against the Japanese invasion of China (to weaken his rivals), was indirectly responsible for an unknown portion of the 15-20 Chinese war dead, and the Cultural Revolution killed between 1-20 million.

Even with the worst numbers, Mao still kills more people through incompetence, than though direct, indirect, and influenced acts of violence. Making him unique among monstrous world leaders.

14 posted on 07/14/2020 7:10:29 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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