China on the Rise: Never Forget the Horror of Chinese Totalitarianism

For many people, misrule under Mao Zedong, the so-called Great Helmsman and Red Emperor, might seem like old news.

In the 1930s, Japan visited foreign fury and murderous nationalism on an ill-prepared but brave people, a fight that continued in World War II. In 1949, the civil war concluded with creation of a renewed empire, the People's Republic of China, announced by Mao Zedong on October 1 in Tiananmen Square.

Yang became the premier chronicler of Mao's most catastrophic fantasies.

With Mao as China's sole theoretical authority, as well as the ultimate wielder of political and military power, China's government became a secular theocracy that united the center of power with the center of truth.

Divergence from Mao's views was heresy, and since the government had the power to penalize and deprive an individual of everything, the merest thought of discontent prompted an overwhelming dread that gave rise to lies.

Mao triggered the Cultural Revolution just like he did the Great Leap Forward.

China was delivered from its misery only by Mao's death on September 9, 1976.
 

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