<p>yeah sorry,
it's kinda like telling a Jewish person you have a poster of hitler in your room</p>
<p>I watched most of it. Like the first half of the creative portion, and I stopped watching after USA walked out. It was good.</p>
<p>^^ I just didn't realize that you'd get really upset over it, because in some ways I think Mao Zedong was all right. Of course, the result of all his plans was one huge FAIL, but he probably thought he was doing the right thing, at least in the beginning. His plans were just too big.</p>
<p>it's ok
Mao killed about 70 million people during his "cultural revolution" roughly equivalent to the death toll of holocaust victims
my grandpa tells me of the horror and how his house was searched and burned, and how his friends were killed</p>
<p>Regarding the deaths caused by the famine [indirectly caused by his policies], </p>
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According to some, most notably Dr. Li Zhisui, Mao was not aware of anything more than a mild food and general supply shortage until late 1959.</p>
<p>*"But I do not think that when he spoke on July 2, 1959, he knew how bad the disaster had become, and he believed the party was doing everything it could to manage the situation" *
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<p>They didn't exactly have the best communication system and I think that he thought his plan was working [to lessen agriculture and become a world power] at least until close to the end of things. The "official" number for the famine deaths is 20 million.</p>
<p>But I'm not defending the result of Mao's policies, I'm just saying that I think in the beginning he had the right idea. He just couldn't follow through.</p>
<p>And I'm sorry about your grandpa :[ That had to be terrible...</p>
<p>Anyone know when women's gymnastics will be on?</p>
<p>^ lol can you tell me when you find out?</p>