Eastern countries are EVIL!

[Lostplanet22]

Samus Aran said:

Perhaps he barely kept them alive, if you're making a claim like that you also need to post a source though.

I don't know a lot about the Chinese history from before Mao, but Mao did win the civil war because of the help of the peasants.

But I'd rather be dead when I'm 35 then to live 35 more years under the reign of crazy psychopath.
It's a shame really, if Mao didn't do all those crazy stuff he would have been remembered as a great writer/poet

Depends on how was life before.

Sources :Wikipedia maybe?

 

They point out that before 1949, for instance, the illiteracy rate in Mainland China was 80%, and life expectancy was a meager 35 years. At his death, illiteracy had declined to less than seven percent, and average life expectancy had increased to more than 70 years (alternative statistics also quote improvements, though not nearly as dramatic). In addition to these increases, the total population of China increased 57% to 700 million, from the constant 400 million mark during the span between the Opium War and the Chinese Civil War