It's not just CCP, I live in Philly. I know some staunch socialists who love him, Stalin and Castro. Their stance is America's intervention lead to these deaths, of not for America Mao would be a Saint on earth. Scary that people believe that
A sudden collapse of the CCP would throw China into even worse chaos than it already is under the CCP. The best way foward is either a slow dissolving of the CCP or reforms (although with Xi the Pooh in charge neither are going to happen any time soon)
@@toddkurzbard Are you huffing paint or something? Outside of your fever dreams, that's not a thing. Conservatives have always been the oppressors and the slavers. It's always about "conserving" the good old days when everybody that wasn't a straight white male was considered subhuman. It's historical and reality based. Sorry.
Let’s not forget the CCP still holds Mao as a ‘visionary’ and there is a high likelihood if you talk to any regular person in China. They have no idea about ANY of this.
@@bazle64 I have hope that it will eventually happen. But for that to occur people must come together and keep the topic alive long enough for the people resisting to fade from power.
Had a friend in the 90s he was in his late 60s and he would tell me horrible stories about his childhood and life in China, unbelievable things that were actually true .
If your friend was in his late 60's in the 1990's, he wasn't a child during Mao's China. He was a child during prerevolutionary China, and so his experiences were what the revolution overthrew. It's weird that you didn't figure that out, it's very obvious.
@@gray5817 "childhood AND life" so lets assume we talking about since he was 10 to 30 years old, 1940 - 1960, so he basically lived through WW 2, japan war, comunism victory, and most of mao bullsht, i would assume he somehow escaped the country alive after the great leap forward in 1960's at his 30's
@@JanDarkyy Fair enough! China is a complex society that has been through a lot. Anyone that experienced it firsthand is entitled to their opinions. Lets also not forget about the Uygaur people.
most evil man? He did something necessary and shaped china for the history to come. Most evil is still from Germany. unless infographics are Neo nazis which I don't doubt
I do not think so. Power exposes corruption. It is not the cause for corruption. People just see it more easily when a wealthy or powerfull entity is corrupt.
My grandmother was a teenager living on a farm with her mother and father during these times in Dongguan (which has been the electronics manufacturer of the world for the past 10 years) in the Guangdong Province. Her father died rather abruptly from inhaling toxic gases while clearing a crude drainage system on the farm and left my grandmother and her mother behind. She says that before her farm was confiscated by the CCP (her mother was actually compensated the equivalent of pennies on the dollar of what the farmland was worth, but they really didn't have a choice in the matter) there would always be 'distant relatives' and strangers that would stay on their farm and freeload because they had nowhere else to go, had no money and were starving. My grandmothers mother was kind hearted and took in these less fortunate people as best as her means could provide. At some point she housed and fed more than 15~20 of them. For many of them it was a sojourn whilst making their way down to Hong Kong which was free from the troubles of China at the time. Many had heard of the prosperity that the British Colony had brought and wanted a piece of the pie. Some years later even my wifes father had swam across the seas to illegally enter Hong Kong when the Government at the time announced they were issuing ID Cards for citizenship. Albeit, his heart still belongs to China as the indoctrination that generation was subject to, to them was really profound. He would often complain to his children "why do all of you not love China?!" and they would retort "if you love China so much what are you doing in Hong Kong?" to which he would become frustrated for having no good answer. I asked my Grandmother once "do you think Mao Zedong is good?" and she enthusiastically answers without a second of hesitation "Yes! Yes, he's wonderful!" and started blurting out the first few phrases of the Chinese national anthem in song. I guess it's why that generation is called the "Lost Generation."
My father's grandmother and my mother's grandmother both starved to death in “Great Famine” in Hebei Province. My mother was a ten-year-old kid who thought she would starve to death too in 1960.
A person can't be brainwashed that long. It's not about brainwashing. It was a chaotic era. Many were liberated. Many had their lands confiscated. Its just the same as the French revolution. Would you call the jacobite or the white terror wrong? It renewed society. In hindsight. China would be worse than India today without the CPC
My grandma was a school teacher and then a principal teaching in China during the cultural revolution. Not a great time to be a teacher, as they targeted intellectuals. She said that once a group of red guards (students who worshipped Mao), pinned her down and shaved her head in public. Craziest part is, she still absolutely worships Mao and the Chinese government. At least she says she does.
If you would like more information about what happened to families during this time, a great book to read would be Red Scarf Girl. The author actually lived through the cultural revolution and the book is a retelling of what she lived through. My english teacher actually made a unit covering the cultural revolution. He went very in-depth and explain a lot of what happened. He also had us do an essay comparing Mao and a Dictator of our own choice. It was very informative and I believe that more people should be taught about this dark side of history.
I remember hearing about that book in highschool but only being able to read like a poem or I believe it was a passage from the book because apparently it was too violent and gruesome to read in our school
@@freddiebinthaplace2be634 If you ever get a chance to now, you should really try to read the book. Yes It is pretty dark, but it's historically accurate and the main character is pretty easy to relate to. Happy reading my friend!
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
All the things being told in this video are so true because most of them are real experiences of my parents and grandparents and great grandparents. Such a valuable video and great work !
Never once did we learn about this in school. History classes in schools love to cherry pick what's taught to students instead of teaching them everything. The very thing that keeps history from repeating itself is the one thing educational systems will not do.
@@krboswell "B-b-but Communism never has been adopted 100%! Capitalism bad because emmmm emmmm this person (a doctor) makes 10x more than me! ( a burger flipper)" 🤓
Much respect to all of our Chinese neighbors sharing their own families' horror stories from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. May our political extremes in America never be allowed to resort to these tactics.
Have you forgotten how the USA treaded their own population of the Original People of America , there were not many left in 1900, that’s the worst crime committed by the USA.The Europeans don’t talk about it, I mean most of the people who emigrated to America were at that time from Europe.
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.” Mao Zedong That quote by him speaks about how some people view politics. It's a war to them and their side has to win. You see so many people from all sides throwing abuse at those who disagree on social media. As history shows that is the wrong way. Politics is all about debate and only when people can freely debate with one another. Can strong democracies where everyone can have a decent life can exist.
I have to disagree somewhat, debating is another form of showmanship; who can sound smart and charismatic to a large population because how many can you say believe in what they say if not to appeal to masses and win points? And how many just do it (especially in media now) to look smart? It's another form of competition that sometimes just reinforces ideas instead of challenging them.
Democracy (and fair election) can make most people choose status quo instead of a bloodbath. but violent is always an option. btw in that sense should the not-so intellect allowed to freely debate?
The biggest tragedy of this was the forced communal steel and bronze production was all pointless as they used primal smelting techniques that made the bronze and steel absolutely useless and worthless it was all a waste of time 🤦♂️
All of it was a waste of time. It's amazing how Moa was told his strategies would fail but killed the people who told him so. A bad quality to have as a "leader."
One thing that you missed mentioning in this fantastic video is that those red guards were so brainwashed they even betrayed and ratted out their own family members ( even for hiding academic books, religious paraphrenia etc.) It was a time where parents could not even trust their kids. I remember watching a documentary a few years back which they interviewed some of the red guards, and they recounted all the horrific things that they did. To my amazement, they didnt seem to show any remorse or guilt. It seemed to me that they were proud of what they did.
So happy to see that Mao is finally getting some recognition in the west for the horrors he inflicted It's wildly understated, but recognizing him as evil is a good first step.
I had read in a biography that twice, once during the Long March and the other during the general civil war, Mao and his wife had to give their newborn child to some peasants so that they would be able to focus on the war at hand. imagine, at least two families could be the direct descendants of Mao and not even know it.
Unlikely, first the story is most likely not true. Second if they were peasants then they likely died during Mao’s rule like millions of others in China. So If the story is true it would mean that Mao killed his own children which isn’t something that’s hard to believe considering he killed millions and millions of his own people.
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
My grandmother escaped from China during the famine period because they had no food to eat, sometime just a bowl of rice shared among a family of six once a week, from her memory, that was one of the most horrific time of her life, watching people died of starvation and people killing each other for what little food they have. I think the figure of six million quoted to have died may be well below the true figures.
I am not chinese and truly hate both of those monsters. I hope all those they killed are torturing Mao and Stalin for eternity in the most unfathomably horrific ways.
Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
@@threathy Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
@@roscoejones374 This isn't true communism and when both Stalin and Mao took the words of Marx and Lenin and twisted it and made it into their own personal doctrine and how to gain power and that is why they became mad dictators and why they failed in the end. If you study true communism then you would find out that in truth it was all for democracy it was only the capitalist mindset that they disagree with. But in the end true communism will never work(short term or long term).
The Great Leap Forward wasn't for the people, it was for the country's performance on the world stage. Societies which turn to competition against all others at all costs will consume themselves. We should take this as a warning.
@@fisher3317 Of course you're still sad about the country for still having more people, but it's not like everyone else in the world share your mindset either.
@@tritium1998 Well, it's their choice in regards to what terrible regime they want, as long as they don't invade another country to enforce their authoritarianism elsewhere. In the meantime, I'd rather vacation to Taiwan than mainland China, given that they understand what democracy is.
my grandma escape china and ran south east asia to cambodia. she have talk about the history and starvation. my grandma only survive because she was over 6 ft all and she was a model. she work as a model and a waitress during the time she went south east and then cambodia then had a genocide happened. she escape death so many times. she live a very hard life. then she devoted her life to the buddha temple and pray everyday until she passed away.
'' he could have done so much to help people and make good around him, but he decided otherwise '' That's what I heard on my head while watching a documentary on him
Content that criticize old socialism doesn't get cancelled. Only contest that criticize new socialism (lgbtetc. agenda, ecologism, feminism, current socialistic ideas in economy and so on) get cancelled.
Love and Respect to the people of The Infographics show! I salute your bravery for showing the truth about Mao Zedongs reign and tyranny. Keep it up guys! I love all your content, its both educational and entertaining!
I didn't understand my parents always talking about how hard their childhood was since they were in china under mao and since i've pretty much only learned western history, but now i know why
@Zack Smith because people who grow up in china honour him as their founding father, i am chinese but i grew up in a democratic country and i believe mao's sins are horrible
@@xuezhenghaotkps8074 Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Mao was an evil man responsible for so many deaths. My friend grew up in China and was young when he died. She felt no sorrow when he died because she didn't know him. However, her mom warned her to act sad and pretend to cry about his death at school and in public, otherwise they would be punished and locked up for not showing emotion about his passing. So, my friend said she did as her mom told her to do, bowing her head and faking sadness and sobbing so her family would not be arrested.
I love how the supporters of communism always claim "ThAt WaSn'T ReAl CoMmUnIsM" while others say it was justified, and others say these stories are just western/capitalist propaganda.
Even *Stalin had preferred the Koumintang* to the PLA because he knew that he could better reason with Chiang Kai-shek whereas he couldn’t control Mao PS. Koumintang fought the Imperialists of Japan, not PLA, the. PLA waited until the fighting was done so it could defeat the already-tired Koumintang
@@Ray29292 Stalin had a relationship with the Koumintang. Here’s an excerpt from Wiki (and it’s sourced): _”The Soviet Union trained Kuomintang revolutionaries in the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. In the West and in the Soviet Union, Chiang was known as the "Red General". Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.”_
@@jambudvipi yes he did have a relationship with the kmt up until i think it was called the shanghai massacre where chiang killed communists after that the ussr moved away from a friendship with the kmt so no they would not have been able to get along in the long term
It's disturbing how in the modern US not only is this history rarely taught but there seems to be an active effort among some to avoid it being taught or even discussed. Wouldn't want people learning from history I guess...
when would this have been taught? i barely learned about the slaughter of the Indigenous ancestors here in the US, why would we learn about what happened the atrocities in China?
@@craig6363 you barely learned about the slaughter of the natives? I find that hard to believe, being someone who also went to school in the US, as it seemed to be one of the schools favorite subjects lol. As far as why it should be taught... maybe to give people a more comprehensive, less biased view of human history? Teach people the dangers of Mao's ideology so they don't repeat it? Maybe end up with a few less moronic college students thinking communism is a good idea?
@@craig6363 considering China is commiting genocide right right now against the Uyghurs, probably not. Also what mentality of mine are you referring too? I'm quite literally saying we should be teaching the nasty parts of human history in schools? The only point of contention between us seems to be that I want all people's atrocious to be taught because I believe that leads to a less biased society, especially in current age of the Oppression Olympics that we're in, whereas you seem to only care about teaching the atrocities that perpetuate your own personal victim status.
My dad: You need to focus on how China lifted their entire population out of poverty. Me: Yeah, after 1/3 of them starved to death, it would be much easier.
Yeah. If you starve half the people to death you can say everyone alive has a full bully and hunger has been solved, but it's just not the same as getting food into the bellies of the poor and hungry and having them alive instead of starved to death.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
I have been watching stories about Chairman Mao since I was 3 years old in the mid 1960s. I grew up in San Francisco and there were many Asians including some in my own family who thought he was a decent man. But I remember being told eat your food on your plate because there are starving people in China. We knew about what was happening and America did not like it and therefore we bought things from Taiwan. This is one of the First videos I've ever seen that actually gives details that makes evidence and proof that Xi Jinping has been linked to communist Chinese ideology linked to now not just the Marxist ideology but specifically the maoist ideology is in the head of Xi Jinping and many members in the current Communist Party. That's why we must end them dead just like Chairman Mao is dead now
@@dalansullivan1573 Xi literally believes he’s the continuation of mao, not somebody to follow dude lol yikes. He recently forced all students and party leaders to read mao s writings
My grandpa was one of the guys who left alive, but he never wanted to talk about anything from there, he just spoke with the other chinese guys he came with and the ones that came before and after him... I'd like to know who he left behind, the only thing I know is he had another wife there.
I’d like to think I’m an intelligent individual and I read a lot and watch many videos on everything… it’s kind of sad I’ve never heard about this at all… keep up the great videos
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
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Where are my replies, I have notifications and there says there's a reply but I don't see one? I'd love to explain how when you pretend to do communism, and then do state capitalism instead, you get bad outcomes
Seriously, good question. Only someone who's completely delusional and or has been majorly gaslighted/brainwashed would believe Mao to be anything but an evil piece of 💩.
Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
I never seen anybody beating anybody else to death with sticks or hunting throwing scholars down the stairs at at school they teach in, but I could always just be privileged to be from a good area in a decent state
If they had to cover all the evil mao did….. this would be a 5 season, 12 episode per season , 120min per episode documentary. And get death threat from XixiP
Again. China did not invade Tibet. Tibet was always a part of China. Don't believe me? Check the Taiwanese constitution. Tibet was already a part of China before the communist uprising. The Dalai lama thinks he's a reincarnated living buddha. Are you going to worship his authority instead?
Thank heavens that channels like yourselves are bringing this to more people. The horrors of communism have been subverted and need to be understood instead of championed by people without the true understanding of what communism has done to humanity
@@normalityrelief no such thing as real Communism. It's a theory that seems great on paper but doesn't take into affect little nuances like human nature and differences of ability. communism fails. Throughout the many countries that strive to achieve it, nothing good came about. Death and carnage in the guise of holding power. History has shown and proves it right. Heck the founder of communism didn't live a life as his own philosophy. So that tells something about his failed theory.
@@anonymoususer6783you would be horrified to kbow that the Chinese killed FAR more of their own people than the Japanese did. It's just easier to blame them so they have a common enemy.
Mao’s rise to power should serve as a staunch warning for folks on the left here in the U.S. A fair society doesn’t necessarily have to equate to a vengeful one, but Mao made the vengeance and anger such a focal point of his regime that it spiraled far out of control and cost millions of lives.
I’ve met many chinese that went through this …. They told me how they cooked tree bark and grass, one lady said the hunger was so unbearable they ate mud pies….. tree barks were nutritious and were inky meant for her parents. But the communist party blamed usa for every problem, even to this day.
There are people in politics today who are against education and don't want history to be taught. Make no mistake, something similar can and may happen here in the U.S. when the cult of personality and anti-education take hold.
The last 6 years has already seen this increased in the US, at every specific level of our government, embedded into, and magnified by, social media and specific media outlets.
“Can and may” American and the Europeans have killed 100s of millions of people through slavery and colonialism. These people literally have depopulated Africa
Given right-wing concerns that history may be forgotten and left-wing concerns that the uneducated are easily fooled by personality, this should be a bipartisan issue.
I personally believe that the biggest problem is that old people shouldn't be given that much power, and that the power definitely cannot be centralized to one person only. Such action can cause many problems, as a single mistake, by accident or on purpose, can lead to many deaths in the country. This is why most of these kind of countries are very poor and the people leaders are supreme.
I had to stop every 5 minutes of this video just to deal with the emotions. This is so sad. I feel so sad for all the people who suffered. I hope our world will never be hungry again, nor China will. I hope we ll manage to find a way to make everyone understand that the happiness and productivity starts from personal effort resulting in personal gain. And not my giving your result of work to the “party”.
The fact Mao is still venerated around the World despite making Adolf H. look like a saint makes me lose every hope for humanity. Those who do not know their past are condemned to repeat it
There died 600 000 Americans during the Civil War. There were 30 millions in total. Multiply by 25 to get the population of China in the 1960's. Would you ascribe all those massacres of the Civil War to Lincoln and his idea that slavery had to be abolished? Some even go as far to say that Lincoln turned the American Republic into an Empire of which he was Ceasar, and that's not 100% false. But the fact was the South really fought for the preservation of slavery however hypocritical was the fight of the North against it. Mao should be valued like Lincoln : a tyrant who only had the word democracy in his mouth, but...
It often occurs to me how, as much as I can respect the idea of intellectual inoculation, the people with access to this information are often the ones poised to use the other side of the story.
Imagine going to college to learn how amazing that this was that we need to do this everywhere only difference is we need to change it ever so slightly how they don't know how but just a little bit different and then it'll work
What college did you attend to? In mine they said the Chinese regime was never communist. It was more of a command economy in the days of Mao, and State Capitalism in today's Xi Jinping China.
We should never do what China did, not even slightly different, because that would just mean State Capitalism, which is already worse than regular Capitalism.
@@bucherregaldomi9084 exactly, corporations already have so much control and have way less of a problem trampling on everyone. Giving control of the state over to them is always a bad idea
Japan was responsible for close to 30 million direct and indirect deaths in china, and the chinese to this day still hate Japan from the bottom of their heart. Mao was responsible for over 100 million deaths and the chinese love him like a god hero to this day. There’s no one on earth who hates the chinese more than the chinese.
Boy I can't wait to see how many people take this as an anti-left video when in reality it should be taken as anti-authoritarian. Authoritarianism is not exclusive to either side.
Your the first I seen to mention the left. Alot of people have moved on from the colour coded blanket political tribes of 2016-2018 I think. Nowadays I see more people be much more niche in their political idealogy. Leftist hating other leftists. The Russo-ukraine war for example has left wing people who now hate Russia and everything Russian related. While going a bit farther left we can see horseshoe theory in effect with tankies idolising Putin because Nato bad.
Where would be a good place to learn more about the subject away from RUclips's sensitivity? I find learning about the really bad stuff unfiltered helps to bring context on what these poor people had to truely face on a day to day basis
It is really frustrating that the CCP still celebrates this man.
It's not just CCP, I live in Philly. I know some staunch socialists who love him, Stalin and Castro. Their stance is America's intervention lead to these deaths, of not for America Mao would be a Saint on earth. Scary that people believe that
The CCP and Mao are one and the same. It's disgusting that the CCP still exists at all.
Because he’s great
A sudden collapse of the CCP would throw China into even worse chaos than it already is under the CCP. The best way foward is either a slow dissolving of the CCP or reforms (although with Xi the Pooh in charge neither are going to happen any time soon)
What u expect from communists
"Arm yourself with knowledge, viewers, so you don't become a weapon of someone with dangerous ideas"
And be careful during cultural revolutions as those with knowledge are the first to be purged.
arm yourself with american brainwash media
This is one of the most nightmarish stories I've ever heard. No horror movie has ever come close to this depravity.
Stories of men like Mao are an example that truth is far stranger than fiction. These real life horrors are more disturbing than a Stephen King novel.
The American Left did years ago.
@@toddkurzbard Are you huffing paint or something? Outside of your fever dreams, that's not a thing. Conservatives have always been the oppressors and the slavers. It's always about "conserving" the good old days when everybody that wasn't a straight white male was considered subhuman. It's historical and reality based. Sorry.
Holy cow, the brutality.
@@toddkurzbard Really? Who on the American “left” did anything like this?
Let’s not forget the CCP still holds Mao as a ‘visionary’ and there is a high likelihood if you talk to any regular person in China. They have no idea about ANY of this.
They are brainwashed
I don’t know capitalism destroys so many lives. 45,000 of people die every year do to health related cost. Because of capitalism.
As a foreigner in china I can agree to this everything is controlled generations from when this happened have been censored to the real truth
@@isaacdiaz6644because of their government
@@JavierRamirez-lx4ev according to your comment you know nothing 🤦
My respect for Infographics channel just skyrocketed! This was so well researched and heartbreaking af. Please don't cave to any pressure to remove it
Yes and let's talk about Native American genocide of 50 million
@@bazle64 they never will
@@bazle64 Whataboutism
@@bazle64 I have hope that it will eventually happen.
But for that to occur people must come together and keep the topic alive long enough for the people resisting to fade from power.
@@bazle64 whataboutnism trump card. 😂
Had a friend in the 90s he was in his late 60s and he would tell me horrible stories about his childhood and life in China, unbelievable things that were actually true .
Late 60s?!?
If your friend was in his late 60's in the 1990's, he wasn't a child during Mao's China. He was a child during prerevolutionary China, and so his experiences were what the revolution overthrew. It's weird that you didn't figure that out, it's very obvious.
@@gray5817 "childhood AND life" so lets assume we talking about since he was 10 to 30 years old, 1940 - 1960, so he basically lived through WW 2, japan war, comunism victory, and most of mao bullsht, i would assume he somehow escaped the country alive after the great leap forward in 1960's at his 30's
@@JanDarkyy Fair enough! China is a complex society that has been through a lot. Anyone that experienced it firsthand is entitled to their opinions.
Lets also not forget about the Uygaur people.
One thing is crystal clear- power corrupts and the more concentrated the power, the deeper the level of corruption.
Amen! Power is evil!
That never happens in China. It's a perfect country, just ask xi jinping.
most evil man? He did something necessary and shaped china for the history to come. Most evil is still from Germany. unless infographics are Neo nazis which I don't doubt
I do not think so.
Power exposes corruption.
It is not the cause for corruption.
People just see it more easily when a wealthy or powerfull entity is corrupt.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
For telling the truth
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@@MS-gp4nq we love
This is the literal definition of "Die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain"
Moses same
It shocks me how this man manage to surpass the death toll of WW1 with the Great Leap Forward.
Collectivism is a destroyer. Read Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn.
Communism has killed more people than all of the war deaths in the 20th century combined
Funny thing is the chinese people still praise him like as if he was a god of his time.
@@josephpeeler5434 do you mean, "collectivism"
@@firewater3523 Yes, I meant collectivism. Autocorrect drives me crazy.
My grandmother was a teenager living on a farm with her mother and father during these times in Dongguan (which has been the electronics manufacturer of the world for the past 10 years) in the Guangdong Province. Her father died rather abruptly from inhaling toxic gases while clearing a crude drainage system on the farm and left my grandmother and her mother behind. She says that before her farm was confiscated by the CCP (her mother was actually compensated the equivalent of pennies on the dollar of what the farmland was worth, but they really didn't have a choice in the matter) there would always be 'distant relatives' and strangers that would stay on their farm and freeload because they had nowhere else to go, had no money and were starving. My grandmothers mother was kind hearted and took in these less fortunate people as best as her means could provide. At some point she housed and fed more than 15~20 of them. For many of them it was a sojourn whilst making their way down to Hong Kong which was free from the troubles of China at the time. Many had heard of the prosperity that the British Colony had brought and wanted a piece of the pie.
Some years later even my wifes father had swam across the seas to illegally enter Hong Kong when the Government at the time announced they were issuing ID Cards for citizenship. Albeit, his heart still belongs to China as the indoctrination that generation was subject to, to them was really profound. He would often complain to his children "why do all of you not love China?!" and they would retort "if you love China so much what are you doing in Hong Kong?" to which he would become frustrated for having no good answer.
I asked my Grandmother once "do you think Mao Zedong is good?" and she enthusiastically answers without a second of hesitation "Yes! Yes, he's wonderful!" and started blurting out the first few phrases of the Chinese national anthem in song. I guess it's why that generation is called the "Lost Generation."
A shame many people don’t know about that, + first
My father's grandmother and my mother's grandmother both starved to death in “Great Famine” in Hebei Province. My mother was a ten-year-old kid who thought she would starve to death too in 1960.
Wow. I can’t begin to even think how hard this was.
@@fourlomm Me too
A person can't be brainwashed that long. It's not about brainwashing. It was a chaotic era. Many were liberated. Many had their lands confiscated. Its just the same as the French revolution. Would you call the jacobite or the white terror wrong? It renewed society. In hindsight. China would be worse than India today without the CPC
My grandma was a school teacher and then a principal teaching in China during the cultural revolution. Not a great time to be a teacher, as they targeted intellectuals. She said that once a group of red guards (students who worshipped Mao), pinned her down and shaved her head in public. Craziest part is, she still absolutely worships Mao and the Chinese government. At least she says she does.
Wow amazing story. Maybe Stockholm syndrome.
We always say "never again" until it happens, again and again and again and again.
Like right now in the U.S..
Yep!
yep...
And again in gaza
But it will be different this time!
If you would like more information about what happened to families during this time, a great book to read would be Red Scarf Girl. The author actually lived through the cultural revolution and the book is a retelling of what she lived through.
My english teacher actually made a unit covering the cultural revolution. He went very in-depth and explain a lot of what happened. He also had us do an essay comparing Mao and a Dictator of our own choice. It was very informative and I believe that more people should be taught about this dark side of history.
I remember hearing about that book in highschool but only being able to read like a poem or I believe it was a passage from the book because apparently it was too violent and gruesome to read in our school
@@freddiebinthaplace2be634 If you ever get a chance to now, you should really try to read the book. Yes It is pretty dark, but it's historically accurate and the main character is pretty easy to relate to. Happy reading my friend!
Go to me 🐱
After watching this I don’t know if I can read such a book , too much for me.
Four olds
Great video, made me understand more real historical events that don't appear in textbooks
This was very heavy but it goes to show we cannot forget history as to never repeat such things in our future.
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
Look into modern day china and they are still very bad and have concentration camps
Yet its happening right now in ccp
Im sure it happens alot even today along w slavery...
@@gdr205 Imagine replying to such an old comment with common knowledge.
All the things being told in this video are so true because most of them are real experiences of my parents and grandparents and great grandparents. Such a valuable video and great work !
Never once did we learn about this in school. History classes in schools love to cherry pick what's taught to students instead of teaching them everything. The very thing that keeps history from repeating itself is the one thing educational systems will not do.
Some privileged, college-educated, white kid with no real life experience: nuh-uh, dude; that's Western Propaganda.
😭😭
@@krboswell "B-b-but Communism never has been adopted 100%! Capitalism bad because emmmm emmmm this person (a doctor) makes 10x more than me! ( a burger flipper)" 🤓
Lol
Much respect to all of our Chinese neighbors sharing their own families' horror stories from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. May our political extremes in America never be allowed to resort to these tactics.
Have you forgotten how the USA treaded their own population of the Original People of America , there were not many left in 1900, that’s the worst crime committed by the USA.The Europeans don’t talk about it, I mean most of the people who emigrated to America were at that time from Europe.
@@AnneNissen-lh1dgfear me children of Adam fear only me
Fear Allah unseen
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
Mao Zedong
That quote by him speaks about how some people view politics. It's a war to them and their side has to win. You see so many people from all sides throwing abuse at those who disagree on social media. As history shows that is the wrong way. Politics is all about debate and only when people can freely debate with one another. Can strong democracies where everyone can have a decent life can exist.
I have to disagree somewhat, debating is another form of showmanship; who can sound smart and charismatic to a large population because how many can you say believe in what they say if not to appeal to masses and win points? And how many just do it (especially in media now) to look smart? It's another form of competition that sometimes just reinforces ideas instead of challenging them.
China isn't a democracy. It's a totalitarian dictatorship
Democracy (and fair election) can make most people choose status quo instead of a bloodbath. but violent is always an option.
btw in that sense should the not-so intellect allowed to freely debate?
No
The biggest tragedy of this was the forced communal steel and bronze production was all pointless as they used primal smelting techniques that made the bronze and steel absolutely useless and worthless it was all a waste of time 🤦♂️
All of it was a waste of time. It's amazing how Moa was told his strategies would fail but killed the people who told him so. A bad quality to have as a "leader."
@@21centuryg the party member who put a stop to this was later tortured to death bc Mao lost face.
The biggest tragedy of this was... he wasn't punished and died peacefully.
Imagine living in luxury while murdering millions, and dying with dignity.
@@cashewnuttel9054 very true.
Chinese steel is still worthless
One thing that you missed mentioning in this fantastic video is that those red guards were so brainwashed they even betrayed and ratted out their own family members ( even for hiding academic books, religious paraphrenia etc.) It was a time where parents could not even trust their kids. I remember watching a documentary a few years back which they interviewed some of the red guards, and they recounted all the horrific things that they did. To my amazement, they didnt seem to show any remorse or guilt. It seemed to me that they were proud of what they did.
That’s what happens when a society removes every type of moral compasses and genuine discord from the people.
makes me think of a certain group with red hats
@@jennsmith3177 You spelled Democrats wrong.
So happy to see that Mao is finally getting some recognition in the west for the horrors he inflicted
It's wildly understated, but recognizing him as evil is a good first step.
Doesn't matter, the leftists love him.
The West loves to create propaganda.
@Zack Smith oh brother. Get outta here with that bs
@Zack Smith wumau
@Zack Smith 1989 tiananmen square massacre
I had read in a biography that twice, once during the Long March and the other during the general civil war, Mao and his wife had to give their newborn child to some peasants so that they would be able to focus on the war at hand. imagine, at least two families could be the direct descendants of Mao and not even know it.
oh no, I have absolute faith those kids either died when they were babies or at some point later on.
Unlikely, first the story is most likely not true. Second if they were peasants then they likely died during Mao’s rule like millions of others in China. So If the story is true it would mean that Mao killed his own children which isn’t something that’s hard to believe considering he killed millions and millions of his own people.
Most likely more propaganda
Also possible that they wound up being among Mao’s victims.
Don't forget that one million plus citizens of Tibet died since they illegally went in & now occupy Tibet.
The fact that this genocide is being celebrated and and still happening to this day is just disgusting
Great video! It's a shame that this isn't taught in school about this evil leader.
Business interests dictate that most remain ignorant to the true nature of communism.
It is. It's called world history.
When did you go too school? This a first taught in 7th grade.
@@JamSackson Not like this.. just an overview.
@Menes D Wise right and in this case it doesn't show enough.. at least what I was taught in the 80s.
I love how honest you guys are, very brave to point this history out, you guys really are the best!
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
All humans are born as Muslim
@@LisaHack-hq3dv Cringe
My grandmother escaped from China during the famine period because they had no food to eat, sometime just a bowl of rice shared among a family of six once a week, from her memory, that was one of the most horrific time of her life, watching people died of starvation and people killing each other for what little food they have. I think the figure of six million quoted to have died may be well below the true figures.
My family caught rodents and ate them. Guess they where the lucky ones.
@@colinsushiboy745fear me children of Adam fear only me
Allah is one God God is Allah Allah has 99 names Allah is almighty
He idolized Joseph Stalin, eventually he became a dictator who surpassed Stalin. Everyone who survived his ordeals hated him and his little red book.
I am not chinese and truly hate both of those monsters. I hope all those they killed are torturing Mao and Stalin for eternity in the most unfathomably horrific ways.
Yet none dared to denounce him, they put the blame on his wife
Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted
freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
@razercortex9292 There are no heroes in history... The British were horrible to my people too
I recently went to Chengdu, China and the people there like him. I was very confused.
Thank you for having the courage to speak the truth. This is really a great channel. Hope you don't get demonitized.
Go to me 🐱
I hope they get their channel deleted
@@Muerte1917 ccp bots detected. 😂
@@Muerte1917 this guy has issues
@@threathy Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted
freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Mao and Stalin two monsters that still don’t get the true recognition of total evil
Thank you for covering this awful chapter of human history. These stories must be told.
Go to me 🐱
I am Chinese and I don’t think Chinese deserve salvation
Tell college kids. They think communism is a good idea.
@@roscoejones374 This isn't true communism and when both Stalin and Mao took the words of Marx and Lenin and twisted it and made it into their own personal doctrine and how to gain power and that is why they became mad dictators and why they failed in the end.
If you study true communism then you would find out that in truth it was all for democracy it was only the capitalist mindset that they disagree with. But in the end true communism will never work(short term or long term).
@@roscoejones374 ok boomer
The Great Leap Forward wasn't for the people, it was for the country's performance on the world stage. Societies which turn to competition against all others at all costs will consume themselves. We should take this as a warning.
Yeah, and China sadly still has this mindset.
@@fisher3317 The really unsettling part is that this trend may very well escalate.
Well, usa made their leap using other countrys lifes as fuel, so, that is no ethic country in this planet
@@fisher3317 Of course you're still sad about the country for still having more people, but it's not like everyone else in the world share your mindset either.
@@tritium1998 Well, it's their choice in regards to what terrible regime they want, as long as they don't invade another country to enforce their authoritarianism elsewhere. In the meantime, I'd rather vacation to Taiwan than mainland China, given that they understand what democracy is.
my grandma escape china and ran south east asia to cambodia. she have talk about the history and starvation. my grandma only survive because she was over 6 ft all and she was a model. she work as a model and a waitress during the time she went south east and then cambodia then had a genocide happened. she escape death so many times. she live a very hard life. then she devoted her life to the buddha temple and pray everyday until she passed away.
Making kids “off” their teachers, when he was once trained as one himself?? The hypocrisy of that is enough to make your head hurt. 🤦♀️
How so?
Share this far and wide. They want you to forget this. Never forget...
They have, and even if you tell them about it, they either won't care or will love him.
'' he could have done so much to help people and make good around him, but he decided otherwise ''
That's what I heard on my head while watching a documentary on him
He never intent to help anyone other than himself.
Thanks for this brutally honest video. I hope this content doesn't get "cancelled"
What is the difference between cancelled and "cancelled?"
@@normalityrelief the difference is they both eat apples and jump in swim suit , when you bath alright yep.
emphasis
Content that criticize old socialism doesn't get cancelled. Only contest that criticize new socialism (lgbtetc. agenda, ecologism, feminism, current socialistic ideas in economy and so on) get cancelled.
@@Ovi1587 what does lgbtq or feminism have to do with socialism lol
Love and Respect to the people of The Infographics show!
I salute your bravery for showing the truth about Mao Zedongs reign and tyranny.
Keep it up guys! I love all your content, its both educational and entertaining!
I didn't understand my parents always talking about how hard their childhood was since they were in china under mao and since i've pretty much only learned western history, but now i know why
All none American parents do that lol
It is ironic because many peoples were aware of his evil and brutal deeds, but they still treated it as acceptable sin.
Because, you know... It's China.
Bro it's china, you know everytime a civil. War happened (three kingdoms for example) millions die like flies
@Zack Smith because people who grow up in china honour him as their founding father, i am chinese but i grew up in a democratic country and i believe mao's sins are horrible
@@xuezhenghaotkps8074 Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted
freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
as is the destructive nature of ideology
something we are seeing a lot more of nowadays
Genghis Khan: *I guess my legacy has been forever forgotten*
Mao was an evil man responsible for so many deaths. My friend grew up in China and was young when he died. She felt no sorrow when he died because she didn't know him. However, her mom warned her to act sad and pretend to cry about his death at school and in public, otherwise they would be punished and locked up for not showing emotion about his passing. So, my friend said she did as her mom told her to do, bowing her head and faking sadness and sobbing so her family would not be arrested.
Thank you for exposing the real pass. The world should never forget it, cause history always repeat itself.
I love how the supporters of communism always claim "ThAt WaSn'T ReAl CoMmUnIsM" while others say it was justified, and others say these stories are just western/capitalist propaganda.
I've been to the museums in china, and they have almost nothing before 1960. Sad
What is this channel if not propaganda against every single thing that isn't judeo christian and unregulated capitalism?
@@hexa1905 they have some videos criticizing capitalism and some about other religions. Seen them before.
@@mikeashley9578 i fail to find any ever done.
You might think of an other channel animated like this.
@@hexa1905 if what you want is an echo chamber full of propaganda praising socialism, communism, Mao, Marx, and Che, there are plenty on RUclips.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
So now I know more about China's recent history than probably over 90% mainland Chinese.
Even *Stalin had preferred the Koumintang* to the PLA because he knew that he could better reason with Chiang Kai-shek whereas he couldn’t control Mao
PS. Koumintang fought the Imperialists of Japan, not PLA, the. PLA waited until the fighting was done so it could defeat the already-tired Koumintang
It's even been reported that Mao and his army colluded with the Japanese fascists to weaken the KMT even more.
The PLA are a bunch of lazy, corrupt, greedy, stinky peasants who were too lazy to work.
Ah yes better reason with chiang a guy who despised communists with a burning passion
@@Ray29292 Stalin had a relationship with the Koumintang. Here’s an excerpt from Wiki (and it’s sourced):
_”The Soviet Union trained Kuomintang revolutionaries in the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. In the West and in the Soviet Union, Chiang was known as the "Red General". Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.”_
@@jambudvipi yes he did have a relationship with the kmt up until i think it was called the shanghai massacre where chiang killed communists after that the ussr moved away from a friendship with the kmt so no they would not have been able to get along in the long term
It's disturbing how in the modern US not only is this history rarely taught but there seems to be an active effort among some to avoid it being taught or even discussed. Wouldn't want people learning from history I guess...
when would this have been taught? i barely learned about the slaughter of the Indigenous ancestors here in the US, why would we learn about what happened the atrocities in China?
@@craig6363 you barely learned about the slaughter of the natives? I find that hard to believe, being someone who also went to school in the US, as it seemed to be one of the schools favorite subjects lol.
As far as why it should be taught... maybe to give people a more comprehensive, less biased view of human history? Teach people the dangers of Mao's ideology so they don't repeat it? Maybe end up with a few less moronic college students thinking communism is a good idea?
@@necrofuryan5899 yes, I am Native American and we barely learned about the slaughter of Natives. You def did not go to school in the states.
@@necrofuryan5899 Also, based on your mentality, they are teaching the cultural and literal genocide of Native Americans in Chinese schools?
@@craig6363 considering China is commiting genocide right right now against the Uyghurs, probably not. Also what mentality of mine are you referring too? I'm quite literally saying we should be teaching the nasty parts of human history in schools? The only point of contention between us seems to be that I want all people's atrocious to be taught because I believe that leads to a less biased society, especially in current age of the Oppression Olympics that we're in, whereas you seem to only care about teaching the atrocities that perpetuate your own personal victim status.
Stalin: "Killing 1 person is a tragedy, killing 10 million is a statistic."
Mao: "Rookie numbers. Hold my wine..."
"... Or Tea."
I would write "hold my Tsingtao!"
@@nathanseper8738 I hope they include YOU in the statistic wumao.
*Hold my Maotai
He never actually said this.
My dad: You need to focus on how China lifted their entire population out of poverty.
Me: Yeah, after 1/3 of them starved to death, it would be much easier.
Yeah. If you starve half the people to death you can say everyone alive has a full bully and hunger has been solved, but it's just not the same as getting food into the bellies of the poor and hungry and having them alive instead of starved to death.
Starved 1/3 of population, killed another 1/3. Now the remains 1/3 worked like slaves so not to be killed. Easy peasy
makes sense
Same thing British did to us. 2 great femine and total looting and destruction.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted
freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
I still find the name ‘the Great Leap Forward’ to be one of the most ironic and horrific names for a historical event.
Very 1984.
Akin to leaping/ jumping off a cliff
This is exactly what info graphic is about, free media,.. Youll never hear this kind of information from CNN, Thank you info graphic
You don’t hear anything cnn ….
By this time I will assume most of the US population don't watch news unless ur an old frustrated Trump supporter
@@misaelaguirre1701 I don’t watch it mainly because most news outlets now push these Marxist ideas like the ones that fueled this atrocity.
I have been watching stories about Chairman Mao since I was 3 years old in the mid 1960s. I grew up in San Francisco and there were many Asians including some in my own family who thought he was a decent man. But I remember being told eat your food on your plate because there are starving people in China. We knew about what was happening and America did not like it and therefore we bought things from Taiwan. This is one of the First videos I've ever seen that actually gives details that makes evidence and proof that Xi Jinping has been linked to communist Chinese ideology linked to now not just the Marxist ideology but specifically the maoist ideology is in the head of Xi Jinping and many members in the current Communist Party. That's why we must end them dead just like Chairman Mao is dead now
That literally makes no sense.
@@dalansullivan1573 A sensible and logical observation articulated in the comment. How can I help you make sense of it.
Chinese communist agents are everywhere
You should end your own corrupt politicians first.
@@dalansullivan1573 Xi literally believes he’s the continuation of mao, not somebody to follow dude lol yikes. He recently forced all students and party leaders to read mao s writings
This information needs to be given to THIS Lost Generation
All those still on Tik Tok ….
@@ddnn974 maga
This mao guy must be important
My cat always talks about him
Finally something wholesome in this sea of tankie comments lol
mao really needs to be covered more people don't understand the horrible stuff he caused to happen 😤
China has people working to keep that from happening.
That won't do anything.
They'll either won't care or love him.
@@masterpython sadly yes and we must do whatever we can to bring it to light
@@cashewnuttel9054 doesnt hurt to try at least
?
he did a lot of good things too
Crazy how this ever happened and how I never once heard about this in school.
I really enjoy watching your videos and listening to your interesting facts the animations are just over the top.
Ok
@Menes D Wise what details were embellished??
What makes me laugh is he’s on every single note of yuan 1-100 in china, he’s glorified.
His portrait is also in Tiananmen Square
Tells you all you need to know about the CCP
Democrats
@@ricksomething YES
My grandpa was one of the guys who left alive, but he never wanted to talk about anything from there, he just spoke with the other chinese guys he came with and the ones that came before and after him... I'd like to know who he left behind, the only thing I know is he had another wife there.
I’d like to think I’m an intelligent individual and I read a lot and watch many videos on everything… it’s kind of sad I’ve never heard about this at all… keep up the great videos
Oh, wait....
If we don't know the past it'll be repeated in the future
So the man responsible for the most deaths in history is also responsible for the greatest population boom in history, how are we going to judge such an individual. 😆
Ask yourself why then go look at the talking points of progressive Democrats.
From my experience, anybody who thinks they're intelligent (or if they say it aloud) then they're probably not.
I know what you are doing. I am extremely thankful for your work. We will win this!
Dog whistle
Infographics is the No.1 youtube channel (without any filters they show real information & doing perfect & possible research on most critical topics, that's the true definition of "information")
We love you & we always support you
The infographics
China has been incredibly tragic for what was once an attempt at economic freedom
"Economic freedom?" That can only come from capitalism and property ownership. Communism steals that away from everyone.
Where are my replies, I have notifications and there says there's a reply but I don't see one? I'd love to explain how when you pretend to do communism, and then do state capitalism instead, you get bad outcomes
This is amazing. Well done. Young people need to view it. Thank you.
Thank you for exposing these canonized and romanticized devils... you gained a subscriber!
geogre washington next right?
Genghis Khan next please
Now do Che Guevara
“It’s better to let half the people die so the other half can survive”
Ok Thanos
Honestly he maked Thanos seem like jesus
Capitalism is letting 99 percent suffer so 1 percent can thrive
The WEF/Davos.
And yet how is it that this monster is still revered by so many in China and even by many in the west?
They don't have a brain or they were told lies
Seriously, good question. Only someone who's completely delusional and or has been majorly gaslighted/brainwashed would believe Mao to be anything but an evil piece of 💩.
Let me introduce you to
BRAINWASHING
edit I wouldn't write this if my area
was shown as mainland China.
You pbl wouldn't see me tomorrow.
Same here, my anchestors were beheaded just because they wanted
freedom from British colonial rules of India. 2 devastating famine in 1 century millions of people starved to death. The colonial British invaders cut off every tailer's hand in order to erase the 'Mauslen' (one kind of famous garments for women that can be keep inside a ring). That cultural dress were gone. When british left our literally rate was 14%. So much leap backward was going on for 200 years. Now, UK of NATO promising us peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Because these people are ignorant. They aren’t taught what actually happens
Some of this stuff sounds a lot like what is starting to happen in the U.S. which is scary.
I never seen anybody beating anybody else to death with sticks or hunting throwing scholars down the stairs at at school they teach in, but I could always just be privileged to be from a good area in a decent state
Not yet you haven’t. This is just the beginning
@@WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq Did you hear about Covid...?
I'm am baffled you didn't talk about Mau Invasion of Tibet & what he did to that country especially causing the Dali Lama to flee Tibet.
If they had to cover all the evil mao did….. this would be a 5 season, 12 episode per season , 120min per episode documentary. And get death threat from XixiP
Again. China did not invade Tibet. Tibet was always a part of China. Don't believe me? Check the Taiwanese constitution. Tibet was already a part of China before the communist uprising. The Dalai lama thinks he's a reincarnated living buddha. Are you going to worship his authority instead?
The Tibetan slavery will stop
Thank heavens that channels like yourselves are bringing this to more people. The horrors of communism have been subverted and need to be understood instead of championed by people without the true understanding of what communism has done to humanity
not communism bu maoism communism is something really different you know
@@amaterskeminyfilmy7652 let me guess, "rEaL cOmMuNiSm HaSn'T bEeN tRiEd!"
@@Crimea_River comments like these just degrade everybodys online experience. Grow up
@@normalityrelief yet, people seem to think they're hilarious. Get a clue.
@@normalityrelief no such thing as real Communism. It's a theory that seems great on paper but doesn't take into affect little nuances like human nature and differences of ability. communism fails. Throughout the many countries that strive to achieve it, nothing good came about. Death and carnage in the guise of holding power. History has shown and proves it right. Heck the founder of communism didn't live a life as his own philosophy. So that tells something about his failed theory.
This must be one of the few things that are worse than the holocaust or equally horrifying.
Thank you for bringing this to your viewers attention.
This is equally horrifying with Imperial Japan WW2 massacres
The native american genocide is far worse
@@subsamadhi Worse than the Holocaust??
@@anonymoususer6783you would be horrified to kbow that the Chinese killed FAR more of their own people than the Japanese did. It's just easier to blame them so they have a common enemy.
@@subsamadhi I'm Oklahoma Cherokee and I actually somewhat disagree with you.
Zero empathy is the key
Wannabe Dictator.
Mao’s rise to power should serve as a staunch warning for folks on the left here in the U.S. A fair society doesn’t necessarily have to equate to a vengeful one, but Mao made the vengeance and anger such a focal point of his regime that it spiraled far out of control and cost millions of lives.
This has nothing to do with "fairness," it's about control.
@@endtheccp4228 but thats exactly what the left is doing in the US lol
@@GenesisRasphotos And we are not talking about the left, we are talking about the CCP.
@@endtheccp4228 "warning for the folks on the left here in the U.S.A" lol really? Ok there bud
Everything's about left and right with you people good luck in the next civil war
Truly heartbreaking what these people endured. This video is PG compared to the reality.
The saddest part is in my country this monster is generally considered a saint and idolized by many. Communism is a plague
I’ve met many chinese that went through this …. They told me how they cooked tree bark and grass, one lady said the hunger was so unbearable they ate mud pies….. tree barks were nutritious and were inky meant for her parents. But the communist party blamed usa for every problem, even to this day.
There are people in politics today who are against education and don't want history to be taught. Make no mistake, something similar can and may happen here in the U.S. when the cult of personality and anti-education take hold.
The last 6 years has already seen this increased in the US, at every specific level of our government, embedded into, and magnified by, social media and specific media outlets.
“Can and may” American and the Europeans have killed 100s of millions of people through slavery and colonialism. These people literally have depopulated Africa
It’s happening right now, and it’s worldwide.
Yea Texas really likes to tell people what should or shouldn’t be taught.
Given right-wing concerns that history may be forgotten and left-wing concerns that the uneducated are easily fooled by personality, this should be a bipartisan issue.
I personally believe that the biggest problem is that old people shouldn't be given that much power, and that the power definitely cannot be centralized to one person only. Such action can cause many problems, as a single mistake, by accident or on purpose, can lead to many deaths in the country. This is why most of these kind of countries are very poor and the people leaders are supreme.
I had to stop every 5 minutes of this video just to deal with the emotions. This is so sad. I feel so sad for all the people who suffered. I hope our world will never be hungry again, nor China will. I hope we ll manage to find a way to make everyone understand that the happiness and productivity starts from personal effort resulting in personal gain. And not my giving your result of work to the “party”.
Sounds you need to avoid similar video about ph****** muhammad then
Vote red and this won’t happen here!
The fact Mao is still venerated around the World despite making Adolf H. look like a saint makes me lose every hope for humanity. Those who do not know their past are condemned to repeat it
A famine is in no way shape or formal similar to purposefully genociding entire races of people. Your stupidity makes me lose hope in humanity
If you rely on hopium you need to get off of that and look at everything, the good and the bad.
Just look no further than Phillippines. They just elected a son of mass murderer
Why I found it funny but its not supposed to be funny? Maybe I have a problem with my brain?
There died 600 000 Americans during the Civil War. There were 30 millions in total. Multiply by 25 to get the population of China in the 1960's. Would you ascribe all those massacres of the Civil War to Lincoln and his idea that slavery had to be abolished? Some even go as far to say that Lincoln turned the American Republic into an Empire of which he was Ceasar, and that's not 100% false. But the fact was the South really fought for the preservation of slavery however hypocritical was the fight of the North against it. Mao should be valued like Lincoln : a tyrant who only had the word democracy in his mouth, but...
It often occurs to me how, as much as I can respect the idea of intellectual inoculation, the people with access to this information are often the ones poised to use the other side of the story.
my grandfather shook hands with Mao Zedong during an espionage mission for the Dutch secret service BVD : pieter Boevé
Imagine going to college to learn how amazing that this was that we need to do this everywhere only difference is we need to change it ever so slightly how they don't know how but just a little bit different and then it'll work
Yeah when authoritarian facist take power every economic system is terrible.
So basically Socialism/Communism nowadays that they're trying to push in the U.S.?
What college did you attend to? In mine they said the Chinese regime was never communist. It was more of a command economy in the days of Mao, and State Capitalism in today's Xi Jinping China.
We should never do what China did, not even slightly different, because that would just mean State Capitalism, which is already worse than regular Capitalism.
@@bucherregaldomi9084 exactly, corporations already have so much control and have way less of a problem trampling on everyone. Giving control of the state over to them is always a bad idea
Wow...just wow. 😔 I truly hope their spirits are at rest. This was truly despicable.
This video is a breath of fresh air thank you
Did this channel just become based? Thank you for covering this!
That's not what based means.
Brother, get off the internet or you will never find a woman in your entire life.
King Leopold would like to have a word
Considering how brutal the Japanese was during WWII, ironically less people might have died if they took over 💀
Japan was responsible for close to 30 million direct and indirect deaths in china, and the chinese to this day still hate Japan from the bottom of their heart. Mao was responsible for over 100 million deaths and the chinese love him like a god hero to this day. There’s no one on earth who hates the chinese more than the chinese.
The R*ping of Nanking (Nanjing) says no.
@@nov4ni Nah he's still got a point, the Japanese where brutal, but didn't come close to the evil of Mao.
Germans were worst…
@@SavageSanto Stalin murdered millions more in Russia.
One of your best videos to date. Fantastic job
"Its better to let half of the people die so the other half can eat their fill"
This guy was a real life Thanos
Standard communism, not shocked.
Take notes America, don’t let this happen to us
Boy I can't wait to see how many people take this as an anti-left video when in reality it should be taken as anti-authoritarian. Authoritarianism is not exclusive to either side.
true too far left or too far right leads to Authoritarianism communism or fascism both lead to countless deaths and suffering every single time
Your the first I seen to mention the left.
Alot of people have moved on from the colour coded blanket political tribes of 2016-2018 I think.
Nowadays I see more people be much more niche in their political idealogy.
Leftist hating other leftists.
The Russo-ukraine war for example has left wing people who now hate Russia and everything Russian related. While going a bit farther left we can see horseshoe theory in effect with tankies idolising Putin because Nato bad.
Dictators swing in all directions, they just need enough idiots to follow.
@Avalie they do promote communism, as you seen in the video, and Bernie sander higher up got caught saying they want to put people in gulag
@@alexcastle7085 Slavery was and still is capitalism. Resource management is complicated, especially if people ignore The Golden Rule.
He could’ve died a hero but instead he lived long enough to see himself become the villain
King Leopold II and his atrocities in Africa is another one you could look into....
I've heard a sound, is glass heart breaking into frags on the ground.
Mao: Highest death toll under his rule.
Xi: Challenge accepted.
How people like this get into power is way beyond me.
I shouldn't be surprised that this was already really depressing in just the first 10 seconds already 😥💔
26:48, Is that still supposed to be showing the Communist Chinese Revolutionaries, or a modern American school campus?
100 flowers campaign sums up Idi Amin Dadas quote perfectly.. "Freedom of speech I can guarantee. Freedom after speech I cannot"
Where would be a good place to learn more about the subject away from RUclips's sensitivity? I find learning about the really bad stuff unfiltered helps to bring context on what these poor people had to truely face on a day to day basis
Read Jung Chang’s books, “Mao” and “Wild Swans”. Great author, well researched, personal experiences.