Mao Zedong
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Mao Zedong
How's he viewed in your country?
By the average Australian: who? Is that some chink?
By Australian politicians: actually never mind, they probably fit into the above category too (except they love receiving big donations from Chinese property investors/developers, it's just the average citizen they hate.)
By Australian politicians: actually never mind, they probably fit into the above category too (except they love receiving big donations from Chinese property investors/developers, it's just the average citizen they hate.)
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Had to google him...
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I guess in germany most don't know about him at all and the rest don't care too much either.
If you are into a bit of the modern history of the world, his is of course one of the names you should at least recognize.
If you are into a bit of the modern history of the world, his is of course one of the names you should at least recognize.
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China's Stalin, for the few Brazilians that even know him.
What this means exactly ranges from "godless communist monster" to "bold leader who had to take extreme decisions during a extreme time", depending of people getting their history lessons from the far right or the far left.
What this means exactly ranges from "godless communist monster" to "bold leader who had to take extreme decisions during a extreme time", depending of people getting their history lessons from the far right or the far left.
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As far as I can tell we Americans treat Zedong the same way we do most foreigners: dismissively. People point out that he was a communist and that the Great Leap Forward didn't work and as far as they're concerned that's all anybody really needs to know.
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What other Americans have said, except the words "cultural revolution" are attached to his communist autocrat self, but we didn't really go over that.
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Most things about Mao would be a death count of the famines that continued happening before the internal transport networks were completed. Maybe that he was psycho enough to murder everyone who gave him bad news so all they showed him was good news all the time and he really had no idea how anything he did worked because of how terrified everyone was all the time. Having all the sparrows killed turned out to be a bad thing.
Maybe some of the old leftists could recite the successes he had despite all that, but it's not like they get any airplay ... uh, ever.
Maybe that North Korea shit the bed after he died, cut itself off from the outside world, and lasted about 14 years before complete internal economic collapse that they've never recovered from. While China got on a became, basically, trade-based single-party socialist.
Maybe some of the old leftists could recite the successes he had despite all that, but it's not like they get any airplay ... uh, ever.
Maybe that North Korea shit the bed after he died, cut itself off from the outside world, and lasted about 14 years before complete internal economic collapse that they've never recovered from. While China got on a became, basically, trade-based single-party socialist.
PC, SJW, anti-fascist, not being a dick, or working on it, he/him.