| hunter_alien said: I never said he lifted them out of the poverty but his groundwork made it possible. Hitler might have done that, sure, but he managed to ruin it all in 3-4 years, with half the world to follow. This is obviously not the case with China. Also, I wonder how many people survived nazi persecution, when they stood up against its propaganda machine... Considering Dachau, probably not many. |
The so called 'groundwork' that Mao did was hardly responsible for China's rise. Don't get me wrong, Mao was a very important figure for true Chinese unification ever since maybe the Qing dynasty but his "Great Leap Forward" policy ended up being a disaster and his "Cultural Revolution" to persecute the elites made his nation lose a lot of expertise in the process ...
Mao was good for ending the civil war but after that he very clearly overstayed his welcome so his ideology got in the way of pragmatism which is why his successor Deng Xiaoping, was far more successful at creating wealth by having technical elites at the very helm ...
