applesauce
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How many Japanese believe Emperor to be a living god after World War 2...especially after he talked on the Radio?
Compare that to how many Chinese believed the same for Mao Zedong....and were willing to starve and die in their millions just so he could attempt to create his version of Heaven on Earth.
I sometimes wonder why Japanese are so demonized in China if Mao is so revered....the latter definitely killed many more Chinese than the former.
japan was an external invader
mao was not
japan invaded with the INTENTION to kill and conquer, with a nice fat dose of racism
Mao started his disastrous policies with the INTENT to improve the country
japan, to this day, has high government OFFICIALS whitewashing or outright denying its grievous war crimes
DENG, as paramount leader, has addressed Mao as 70% correct 30% wrong, no officials denying Mao had bad policies.
Japan continues have territory issues with china and now wants to nose in on the SCS issue
mao unified the mainland, and if it were not for US intervention, taiwan too
a pretty common thought is that Mao maybe should have passed away 20 years or so earlier and allow the likes of zhou and deng to take over earlier, for he was a warrior for sure but no administrator.