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44 Days | Mao Zedong: Ow! Or Wow? 2015.5.1
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or years, Jeff has been perplexed as to why in the West, Mao Zedong is reviled as a mass murdering butcher, a veritable 20th century monster of unparalleled proportions, yet just as universally, he is loved and admired by today’s Chinese. How can this incredible dichotomy exist? What’s going on? Knowing that he needed to find out, in order to do justice to his current book project, “Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping”, Jeff did weeks of research and investigation to find out, including spending hours in local museums, and was stunned at all that he learned. You will be too.
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[…] China’s amazing socio-economic success story during the Mao Era has been completely expunged behin…. For Western colonialism, it must not become common currency that a once poor, technologically repressed country of China’s size, any size for that matter (think Cuba or Eritrea), can succeed economically and socially, under the banner of socialism and communism. It is for this reason that there is a relentless foghorn of Western propaganda to discredit any and all gains made by non-capitalist countries. The West’s owners surely don’t want free thinking people and their leaders in Africa, the Americas and Asia to get any… Read more »