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    I never claimed Tankies actually followed the beliefs thwy spew. Even that fat fuck Mao Zedong kept the rental system in place and Tankies still to this day praise him for executing landlords.

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      Why the fatphobia? No need to insult Mao based on his body.

      Tankies still to this day praise him for executing landlords

      Rightfully so, too. Life expectancy in China doubled under Mao. If India had had its own socialist revolution, it wouldn’t be very different from China in terms of life outcomes, unfortunately for them they didn’t have one.

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          He didn’t starve tens of millions, millions of people starved yearly in China before Mao since it was a preindustrial country. Mao found a China with below 30 years of life expectancy, and left a China with 55+ years of life expectancy, Chinese communism literally saved tens of millions of lives in that era if you compare it to comparably developed countries such as India

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              You can spread your anticommunist propaganda as much as you want, I gave you numbers and facts.

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                From 1959 to 1961 as a direct result of policy in “The Great Leap Forward” between 15 Million and 55 Million people died of the great famine which is the largest manmade disaster in human history, leading to the early termination of the the campaign.

                Mao has killed more people than any individual in history.

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                  You can blabber all you want about the great leap forward, the fact still stands that Mao liberated China and Korea from Japanese occupation, removed the fascists of the Kuomintang, and doubled life expectancy. Mistakes happened, but his mandate was still overwhelmingly positive and material life prospects bloomed as a result. How many people died of starvation in China during Maoism, and how many in India in the corresponding period?

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                    1. Korea was occupied by Japan during WWII.

                    2. China was at war with Japanese colonists until the fall of the Japanese Empire, as the USA reached the main islands and dropped bombs on Japanese Capitals.