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| Che Guevara on left, Mao on right and not sure who the middle guy is. |
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| Stalin on left, Mao on right. |
One thing is certain, we have failed to learn from history and as the saying goes and we are doomed to repeat it. We have forgotten our Christian heritage as a nation and the West in general. In history, we speak about enlightenment, when really it should be forever immortalized as an unenlightenment. Another example of our ignorance is the Crusades. Contemporary thought, would have us believe that the Crusades were a bad spot in Christian history. This is egregiously false and it is an unnecessary stain on the Christian faith. Yet, that is a subject, they i may discuss at a later date.
Mao: The Greatest Mass murderer in history. China's forgotten history
These are the character traits of Chairman Mao Tse Tung: narcissist, egotistical, sadist, Satanist, murdering, barbarian. This guy makes Hitler look like Mother Teresa in comparison.
Mao Tse-Tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.
He was born (26th December 1893) into a peasant family in the heartland of China. His ancestors had lived in that Shaoshan valley for five hundred years. This was a world of ancient beauty, a temperate, humid region whose misty, undulating hills had been populated ever since the Neolithic age. Buddhist temples dating from the Tang dynasty (AD 618-906), when Buddhism first came here, were still in use. Mao's mother didn't receive a name as the seventh girl born in the Wen clan; she was just "seventh Sister Wen. In accordance with centuries of custom, her feet had been crushed and bound to produce the so-called "three-inch golden flower lilies" that epitomized beauty at the time. Mao had a carefree childhood. Confucian classics were what made up most of the curriculum in school and he had an excellent memory and was very knowledgeable in Chinese language and history. Mao's father was always working and disliked how Mao would was being so idle. Mao did not like manual labor; he would tell his father that since he was older, he should do more manual labor. His father once scolded him in front of guests telling him he was useless and lazy--after this Mao fled the house, with his father in tow. He came upon a pond and threated to jump in if his father came any nearer. His father backed down. Once while recalling this memory, Mao laughed and stated "Old men like him didn't want to lose their sons. This is their weakness. I attacked at their weak point, and i won!"
Mao loved books and history. His view of history is rather scary, to say the least. He thought that whatever happens to spice history up such as great wars, epic murder, sexual depravity and basically anything which could be considered brutal or against the normal culture would be interesting and he wanted to contribute to that type of history by any means possible. Mao often didn't get his way while he made his way to the top of the Communist bloc. He would often have make friends of other Communist party members and then later betray them. Yet he also didn't have many friends. He mostly kept to himself and did whatever he wanted to his wives, other people and to Communist rulers that were even a higher status then him.
Mao loved killing people. While he was still trying to take over China from the his arch enemy Chiang Kai-Shek (the nationalist party leader--which was rather decent when compared with the Communists) he would go into a village with his Communist troops and then kill a bunch of people by torturing them. Mao was an expert in torture. He literally invented new ways to torture people. Many of his fellow Communists who got in his way would be killed and those who had hurt him personally would often be tortured. The people who made him look bad however would often have their entire family and friends be brought through despicable years of psychological torture as well as any other kind. One of the ways he tortured people was by using barbed wire through the genitals and dragging that person naked through a town. The list of his favorite styles of torture are quite varied and just as gruesome, if not more so.
The Communists took over control of China in 1949. Mao envisioned himself becoming ruler of the entire world. He secretly harbored this vision throughout his reign. However Mao and the Chinese Communists never would have been able to take over China, if it wasn't for the Soviet Union. The Soviets were funding them constantly with supplies. They were instrumental in establishing a Communist group in 20th century China as well as taking complete control over China. Mao and Stalin were often working together to further enslave the world. It was at Stalin's suggestion that Mao sends his troops into Korea and tries to take complete control over it. Yet Mao was his own man and never did anything except what he wanted to do. Mao helped establish and sustain the Vietnam Communist offensive and Cambodia.
What is more widely known is Mao's starvation of his people in the "Great Leap Forward" which was 5 year plan--a pathetic attempt to gain nuclear weapons. Compared to Russia, China was even further backward in modern weapons as well as modern technology. The Great Leap Forward effectively implemented a war footing for the country and had everyone put virtually every piece of scrap metal that they could find into furnaces which were in everyone's backyard to melt it down for the "cause". Yet the vast majority of these stockpiled metals were useless, because average people had little knowledge about such things. During the Great Leap Forward, Mao toyed with the idea of getting rid of names and identifying people by numbers. More than 30 million people starved to death during the Great Leap Forward and their many people who became cannibals and even eat their own children. During these years many of his advisors were receiving reports of so many people dying, so they talked with Mao but he simply shrugged and replied "half of China may well have to die."
At the age of around 71 Mao started the Cultural Revolution a few years after The Great Leap Forward. Many believe or believed the Cultural Revolution was an attempt by Mao to assert his brand of sadistic/communist beliefs on his country and it was but for him, it was mainly about getting rid of his political enemies behind a country in chaos. Mao first implemented the Cultural Revolution by making his personal beliefs into quotes and made into a book called the Little Red Book which was constantly referred to daily by virtually every citizen in China. There were more Mao badges with his face and his collected works made for China then there were Chinese inhabitants. Mao decreed that students must disobey their teachers, schools, universities, police and all authority. He proclaimed that they their role was to protect Mao and to denounce all culture which resembled capitalist or anything but what Mao advocated. Students were told to condemn their teachers and there were loud speakers placed everywhere that constantly carried hateful rhetoric towards specific groups and it created a nationwide atmosphere of hate and blood lust. Mao advocated that students riot and create violence and that they did. Teachers were brutally dragged in front of their schools, beaten, humiliated and women were raped. This cascaded throughout all China. Suicides were very high. There was no one school in the whole of China where atrocities did not occur. Mao announced his praise for a group of militant teenagers who divided undesirable families and labeled those families "blacks." In a girl's school a headmistress was tortured to death, "blacks" had ropes tied around their necks, were beaten up and forced to say: "I'm the bastard of a bitch. I deserve to die." This model spread throughout all institutions of education. After the terror in the schools Mao urged students to spread out into society and destroy all forms of old culture and that they did. This extreme hatred spread throughout society and many were put into prison or killed for years.
In conclusion, Mao's reign, much resembled the book 1984 and you could even say that it may have been worse. Mao harbored his extreme hatred until his very death (1976). Afterward, the Communists in power began to make the country less murderous and basically into a mixed communist/crony capitalist society.
References -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
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