On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, officially proclaimed the new government in Tiananmen Square.
Failure so vast could not be ignored and Mao found himself criticized by leading party figures the following year.
Michael Lynch observed in his 2004 biography of Mao: "China continues to benefit from a more favorable comparison with Cambodia or the Soviet Union. But as fresh and abundant archival evidence shows, coercion, terror and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap, and between 1958 and 1962, by a rough approximation, some 6 to 8 percent of those who died were tortured to death or summarily killed-amounting to at least 3 million victims." Li Rui, Mao's secretary, observed: "Mao's way of thinking and governing was terrifying. He put no value on human life. The deaths of others meant nothing to him."
Nor was Deng prepared to toss Mao into history's trash can.
Deng judged Mao to be "70 percent right and 30 percent wrong." The Red Emperor's body-or wax double-is preserved in a massive mausoleum in Tiananmen Square.
His family's home is preserved in Hunan Province, which is filled with Mao statues and images.
Observed eminent Chinese economist Mao Yushi, "The idea of communism is a tragedy, a disaster." The key to the PRC's survival was casting off the stultifying controls on its own people.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/chinas-anniversary-whitewashes-the-bloody-terror-of-mao/
Failure so vast could not be ignored and Mao found himself criticized by leading party figures the following year.
Michael Lynch observed in his 2004 biography of Mao: "China continues to benefit from a more favorable comparison with Cambodia or the Soviet Union. But as fresh and abundant archival evidence shows, coercion, terror and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap, and between 1958 and 1962, by a rough approximation, some 6 to 8 percent of those who died were tortured to death or summarily killed-amounting to at least 3 million victims." Li Rui, Mao's secretary, observed: "Mao's way of thinking and governing was terrifying. He put no value on human life. The deaths of others meant nothing to him."
Nor was Deng prepared to toss Mao into history's trash can.
Deng judged Mao to be "70 percent right and 30 percent wrong." The Red Emperor's body-or wax double-is preserved in a massive mausoleum in Tiananmen Square.
His family's home is preserved in Hunan Province, which is filled with Mao statues and images.
Observed eminent Chinese economist Mao Yushi, "The idea of communism is a tragedy, a disaster." The key to the PRC's survival was casting off the stultifying controls on its own people.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/chinas-anniversary-whitewashes-the-bloody-terror-of-mao/
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