greatest mass murderer of human history
As if you didn't know, Chairman Mao was a cruel, opportunistic, uncaring despot only concerned about his own hold on power. According to a new book by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, based on exhaustive interviews and the mining of previously secret documents, Chairman Mao was responsible for the deaths of no less than seventy million people, making him the greatest mass murderer of human history.
posted by shane at 12:48 PM
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Thanks for the info, Matt.
Here's more on Mao, a man concerned with overpopulation...
"Half of China may well have to die" is what he said to his inner circle during the so-called "Great Leap Forward," which killed about 40M people through starvation and overwork. Mass slaughter was not the intention of the Leap, but Mao told his top echelon to not be too surprised if a myriad of deaths do happen, and to actively welcome people dying as a result of party policy. After all, according to Mao: "If people don't die, the earth won't be able to hold them!"
In addition to welcoming mass death from his policies, Mao also gave the impression that he might even welcome a nuclear war: "Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist."
Now that's a regime that needed changing.
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