bugbuglai (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

every man has his faults .great leader Mao Zedong's merits ,achievement and contributions to china are much more than the faults he made by mistake .

B0l0joe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

great leap forward = 1958 - 62 with Mao allowing 30 million to die.

SauLaan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Tibet and Xinjiang are different. In Xinjiang in the old society there were 200,000300,000 Chinese but in Tibet there was not even a single Chinese. So our troops are in a place where there were no Chinese in the past."~ Mao Zedong

TaiwaneseAmerican (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Political Mass Murder disguised as "Cultural Revolution" follows as Mao try to stay in power after the Great Failure.

exccp (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

毛豬該死

yangmeister666 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Love how he wants everyone to be peasants and just killed off the intelligent and the "capitalists"

cooki33girl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

this happens when a person with no educational background runs a country. this bad economic policy killed millions.

griparbelli (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Possible. Impatience. But in his lifetime Mao believed in finding the heirs of a poplr. revltn, so the reason for all the sacrifices the huge low classes who made it possible would not dispersed by the install of a class of new zars, as it happened. In his words, that the red flag would not turn black.There is anther point.Mao was a dedicated Marxist. He though that Socialism only was a transition society to Communism. In that lapse have to fly many revolutionary winds.(Permanent revolution).

otakuboy68 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

the difference was the war time (Revolution) mass movements were more successful was because they were based on survival. rather then when the CCP finally gained control of the mainland they were looking for rapid industrialization. impatience was Achilles' heel of Mao.

griparbelli (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Most of the mass movements initiated by Mao Zedong were successful in changing old ideas and reshaping Chinese society..Mao understood that the pernicious power of Confucianism was permeating Chinese society and hindering its advancement, so he tried to combat it by launching mass movements, culminating in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966..the C. Rev failed to achieve its goal with serious damage to the nation's physical and soc-ec infrastructure and to the prestige of the CCP