As for Mao...he can truly be called the "Father" of modern China.
Deng Xiaoping is more of a "father" than Mao ever was if a nation is even to have such a metaphorical thing as a parent.
He introduced the tools which are making modern China richer by the day (rather he took away the tools set by Mao which prevented China from growing).
Before he took up the fight against foreign oppression and the invasion of China he was the Dean of Humanities at Beijing University. After the vile act of Woodrow Wilson at the end of the First World War when Wilson - arguably one of the worst excuses for a human being let alone a country's leader - gifted the former German "concessions" in China to the Japanese - without of course asking China, he realized that honor was not something China could ever expect from a foreign government of the time.
Foreign possessions worldwide have withdrawn, there's nothing to suggest that imperialism ended because of Mao. It's not like Mao freed Shandong.
The Russians in Dong Bei and the Americans in the Pacific and their Open Door Policies ever since the 1900's did far more to withdraw foreign presence in China than Mao did. Did India have a Mao? Did Canada? Did Brazil? Did every European once-colony have a Mao except China? Yet imperialism is long dead world wide.
Plus it was a secret agreement between the Allies and Japan that forced Shandong into Japanese possession. Woodrow tried to do away with these secret agreements as a whole (including Italy in Dalmatia and so forth) but was not able to convey enough political leverage against the other powers.
He saw the 30 million deaths by starvation by the corrupt, nepotism of the GMD and their American puppets and the hated invader, and he left his cushy post and took up the fight against the heinous crimes being committed for money.
The 30 million deaths was a reference to events from the 1960's to the end of the 1970's. If Mao is going to be a dictator, that means he has to take responsibility for what happened in China during that time.
It was he that helped China throw off the yoke of slavery to foreign tyrants and their syncophantic puppets in the GMD.
And then, Mao, on the back of his white worse, sword at hand, grind on his face, galloped over to Nagasaki and Hiroshima and forced the Japanese to surrender
No wait! The Americans, the Russians and the Nationalists did far more than Mao ever did against the Japanese, how come he gets all the credits?
It was he that raised the people of China from the mud of foreign oppression.
No people were pretty fed up already and like I said, China would be independent today with or without a Mao. This anti-imperialistic fantasy of Mao is nothing but an excuse to pardon the fact that every single policy Mao enacted was devastating for China. So you can say "oh! but he de-colonized China" while decolonization was rampant and inevitable world wide.
Might just as well praise him for the continued existance of gravity. After all, gravity continued during Mao's reign.
It was he for whom his later adult life was spent fighting against those that were trying to destroy China.
Your insistence on repeating the same thing only demonstrates the lack of confidence you have in the stories you're trying to assert.
More of the same
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again....freed China
Poor pitiful foreigners. Grasping at any straw they possibly can to soothe their fear of their growing insignificance. Looking hither, thither and yon desparately to find a way to obfuscate the evil that has been and continues to be perpetrated by them around the world.
What's the difference if the argument is from a Chinese or a Zimbabwan? Validity should only be considered on the argument and not ad hominem.
You know, repeating the same thing over and over again might make your post looks enormous and you can thusly discourage some opposition which you seem to fear, but it doesn't convince me of anything other than there are some serious questions about what you are posting. Even if I knew absolutely nothing about China, I would be incredibly weary of your post because of this rhetoric.
Now, I disagree, de-colonization can not be attributed to Mao Zedong.
That aside, can anyone at all tell me one good thing Mao did for China?
In my opinion, the average Chinese values national unity and economic stability foremost. Am I wrong? By the end of Mao's reign, China was on the verge of another regionalized civil war and was in economic shamble. We should be throwing eggs at his portraits.
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