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Maos policies caused the deaths of millions...
Larry J — (archived)

by some estimates, as many as 80 million. That would put in the Joseph Stalin League of all-time killers.

Some of the policies were simple Marxist stupidity that led to massive famines like the Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 that killed an estimated 30 million people. That famine was made even worse by Mao's dictate to kill all the sparrows (sometimes called the Sparrow War) because he thought they were pests. In fact, the birds ate far more insects than grain, so killing the birds made the famine even worse.

Other of Mao's policies, like the Cultural Revolution, were little different in their barbarity than Hitler's Final Solution. People were imprisoned and/or killed in huge numbers in the name of "idealogical purity".

In sum, Mao wasn't a good guy.

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