| Kasz216 said: I know of the older people that feel that way too Lostplanet. |
That is because of he got rid of the class system.
Before him China had still well field systems.
In theory it means you had a field with peasants and one Ruler. Didn't sound like a bad idea because the peasants had the possibility of an sure weekly/monthy income. It ended not that well because the Ruler had all the power and took the majority of the profit. He also could do anything with the peasants he wanted. * Take one of the peasants wives/daughter and marry her even if she didn't wanted. If the ruler didn't liked one he could threw him out or kill him. If the peasants would start an uproar they will be slaught of the army of the province. In conclusion peasants were nothing more than slaves.
In that time as an peasant you shouldn't hope to live long the average persons didn't got older than 35.
When Mao Zedong got the power he got rid of the system and he made camps who liked as camps for well field systems where all intelligent/educated would be thrown in. The only ones who could afford those study's were rulers so the peasants didn't saw that as a bad thing. Cause those rulers will now suffer like they did.
Mao zedong saved the lives of hundreds of millions who were known as simply peasants/farmers etc.
It is very hard to see Mao Zedong as an bad guy in the view of the peasants/farmers.
That is why you will find many who like(d) Zedong but that is changing the last years.
I mean their is a reason why Chinese who live not in China like Mao Zedong and see him as an hero.
A good book how life was an peasant is the book red feast of Lulu Wang.
