Fattyacids
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May I remind you not too long ago in 1960's your country had to undergo "great leap forward" in the name of change which resulted in innumerable deaths (some estimate run into 45 million people) by coercion and systematic state violence. Your govt. under Mao started introducing reforms after much upheaval in your rural communities. If those people had rights and had the freedom to voice their displeasure without retribution all those deaths could have been avoided.
The death from Great Leap Forward was due to the great famine. The death toll of 45 million is grossly off the mark. The coercion and state violence you referred to was Culture Revolution, but it went horribly wrong mainly due to the Gang of Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's easy to criticize Mao and the lack of rights, but Mao improved literacy to 90%, improve life expectancy, built up china industrial base, science and technology education, China became a thermonuclear power with ICBM capability, though his economic plan was a failure, overall he made China stronger than it was 50 years ago.
Comparably, India with its democracy and rights, the country didn't do as well. The poor were poorer, death from malnutrition and sanitary problems much higher. Even today, India literacy rate still fall behind China during Mao's era.
The West had painted Mao into a bigger monster than he really was.
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