Novus America wrote:East Ustya wrote:That is more of an American thing really, a nation that believes ALL its actions are inherently justified, not matter how terrible they are.
YES Mao made mistakes, but he did not torture and murder millions of people.
“The movement paralyzed China politically and damaged its economy and society, and killed an estimated 500,000 to 2,000,000 people.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
“Not all deaths during the Great Leap were from starvation. Frank Dikötter estimates that at least 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death and one million to three million committed suicide.[101][56] He provides some illustrative examples. In Xinyang, where over a million died in 1960, 6–7% (around 67,000) of these were beaten to death by the militias. In Daoxian county, 10% of those who died had been "buried alive, clubbed to death or otherwise killed by party members and their militia." In Shimen county, around 13,500 died in 1960, of these 12% were "beaten or driven to their deaths."[102] In accounts documented by Yang Jisheng,[35][53] people were beaten or killed for rebelling against the government, reporting the real harvest numbers, for sounding alarm, for refusing to hand over what little food they had left, for trying to flee the famine area, for begging food or as little as stealing scraps or angering officials.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
Also deaths caused by a complete disregard for human life are still murder.
Mao was a complete sociopath. Stalin was not much better.