Kubra wrote:In fairness, the only reason the KMT wouldn't have done such a dumb thing is largely because Chiang was a lot more ineffectual as a singular leader. Gotta give Mao credit, no one else, not even Stalin could make a system in which everyone knew the big guy was fucking up royally but kept going anyways.Diopolis wrote:If you blame every death from WWII on Hitler, sure.
No one can beat Mao for peacetime deaths.
That's, of course, why singular leaders are a poor thing to bet on, since you're basically flipping a coin. That's suckers gambling.
Only guy I can think of that launched a revolution against his own revolution.