@@elenajohnson6336 Why not it is true, there are other examples like Phoinex Johnes the hero with pepper spray as a weapon and a 10000 dollars bulletproof suit (yes this is real)
10.5% of the U.S. population was in poverty in 2019 (Before pandemic) Whereas 0.6 percent of the Chinese population live in poverty in 2021 Stop American propaganda!!!
Late Mao became a total whackjob. Early Mao absolutely believed in education and empowering the peasantry. It's the reason his successor, Deng Xiaoping, stepped down upon reaching an age in which Deng deemed himself unfit to rule.
This text is often taken out of context. What Mao means by this quote is that the communists should find a balance between reading communist theory and organizing communist movements. He felt that too many communists sat around reading instead of building communism.
@@goyomain0774 So that's why the PLA spend around 75% of their time digesting and regurgitating communist manifesto rather than actual combat training.The CCP relies more on brainwashing it's protective force instead of actual military skills.Keep in mind the PLA is there to protect the CCP,not the Chinese people who in turn are brainwashed into believing they are protected by the iron fist of the CCP.
Chinese history makes me very very sad, especially since I was brainwashed to think that none of this happened. It is such a shock in the beginning that I was depressed for a few days.
Don't feel so sad. This video is full of equivocations. Come to the understanding that there is propaganda everywhere, and then you can critique from a nuanced perspective.
@@unifieddynasty this video looks like in China communists did same things as communists did in Soviet Union under rule of Stalin. And real people who saw that times (in former Soviet Union) are still alive and they say same things as in this video. So I can assume that this video is based on real history and it is truth since Mao learned how to rule and destroy his own people from Soviet communists and Stalin in particular.
@@ПрикладнаЕкономіка Look, I get it, from your username, you're Ukrainian right? I hope you understand that it is not my intention to insult what happened to the Ukrainians by pointing out that Stalin is still ranked at among the top of favourability polls in the former USSR. My point is not that you are wrong, but that the world isn't black and white, and this video, in particular, has many equivocations.
@@dud3man6969 and who said communism is bad? Communist societies are still going strong in the 2020s just like Capitalist and socialist societies. It’s all a matter of preference and propaganda honestly 🤷🏽♂️. You born in America, you preferably capitalism. Born in Europe, socialism,. Born in China, communism. I’m American, so I prefer capitalism, but that’s because that’s all I’ve known my whole life. Doesn’t mean I think there is anything wrong or evil with Socialism or communism 🤷🏽♂️
The worst wars and people come from socialist/communist. The people have no control and are manipulated by the media. If people are in control we have no desire to hurt each other nor goto war.
Im chinese, my grandma was a teacher during the great leap and the cultural revolution. This one time, a group of the red guards stormed the school and humiliated my grandma by shaving her head. All in the name of Mao and communism. This kind of cruelty and humiliation happened to many many people in china. interesting thing is, my grandma as well as most senior citizens in china still worship communism and especially Mao. I don't know if the reason is because of what he did for china during WWII or if they only do it out of fear.
Fear and brainwashing. It's extremely powerful, it becomes hardwired. The government has suppressed the truth since Mao came into power, the Chinese have never been free this past century
@@angelamagnus6615 "How can you starve millions when they are largely self-sufficient and dependent on agriculture???" Well, by centralizing all power on the State and making them dependent on the State, and thus no longer self-sufficient. People were not allowed to eat what they produced. Everything went to the State, and the State redistributed as it saw fit. This redistribution was often inefficient. Some of the areas that had the most famine, were also areas that produced the most, but they could not eat the food they produced themselves. They had to wait for the State to feed them. The extra transportation and logistics reduces efficiency, and lack of insight and speed by the government causes people to go hungry. All farms and tools were appropriated by the State, and collectivized. People were divided in parties, and these parties would have to meet monthly quotas of production. Hungry people get weak, and weak people produce less. They wouldn't be able to meet their quotas, and thus would be penalized and receive less food as well. It became a vicious cycle. Farmers were forbidden to use their own techniques, instead being forced to follow instructions provided by the State. Many of the new techniques propagated from this were later found to be prejudicial and inefficient. Because of the severe penalties for not meeting quotas, lower officials started over-reporting their production. This led the higher brass to believe they had more grain than they really had. The people who would distribute the grain would notice the lack of it, but couldn't report it either. If they reported grain missing, they could be deemed responsible for losing it. Thus people higher up would think there was more grain going around than in reality. The State identified that part of the yield was being eaten by sparrows, so they mandated that all sparrows be exterminated. They were. In the following years, pests and blights grew exceedingly worse, since their former natural predator was taken away from the picture. They also blamed part of it on natural incidents such as droughts etc. Lastly, many people were taken away from the field to work on the iron and steel industries, among others. In the end, yield went down as low as 15% of the former amounts, before Mao took charge. You can see how capitalism was more efficient than his system because then each farm was responsible for it's own production, would develop their own techniques and strive to be as efficient as possible. They would eat from their own yield, and try to make as much as possible in order to sell the remainder and make money.
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
One thing the video missed. Mao himself caused the famine. He ordered sparrows and other birds to be killed because they were a nuisance and they were losing crops. Then came the mosquitos and locusts. They lost way more crops to the locusts and the mosquitos were way more of a nuisance. Just to stop losing crops farmers had to over use pesticides. This is why a lot of stuff from China is questionable. My parents and grandparents lived through “The Great Leap Forward.” My grandparents were doctors and educators. People Mao didn’t like. Fortunately my parents immigrated to the USA and my brother and I were born here. Still people seem to have a worship or fear of the guy. Growing up in the US I’ve insulted and protested quite often. I’ve had my parents talk me out in fear of being arrested. I’ve had to remind them that I live in the US. As long as I don’t cause any major trouble I can say whatever I want.
I think that you massively oversimplified the causes of the famine following the great leap forward. First of all the harvest was bad due to things like flooding for example. Secondly, a lot of farmers had been moved to industry because someone thought it was a good idea, which is really the only part that can be called poor planning. Then also, an "expert" from Russia told people to farm in a specific way which didn't work on Chinese soil so a lot of crops died. On top of that local governments were misreporting food production so the central government didn't even know that a famine was starting to take shape and therefore couldn't react. The famine was an unfortunate result of unlucky events and incorrect information. None of it was intentional like many people like to say, and Mao didn't cause it.
he also put people with no expirience to run the crops, also my grandparents were both doctors and their parents were very wealthy, my great grandparents were killed by the red army, and my grandpa was put to work in the fields. My dad was born then too, but thankfully we immigrated to the US
@@Sahtoovi I've always considered Mao to be someone with good intentions that let his ego blind him from his own bad decisions. He is not without blame as he was in basically charge (if he didn't exist there would not have been a famine. In other words - desicions he made led to the famine). The ones who ran away to form Taiwan in a democratic system have been way more successful than China by many measures.
The amount of people here trying to justify his leadership and ideology is pitiful. And the kids comparing him to movie characters like "Thanos" just makes an old man sigh.
@@tnndll4294 How can you make a fair judgement of Mao when you only hear one side of the story.I suggest you take a study at the 2008 subprime crisis,those Wall Street people are the true criminal and while millions of people loses their houses because of their criminal activities,they escaped the law.
@Kylo Ren Thank you for your integrity; many people, Chinese as well as others, are finally learning about the true horror of the Great Leap Forward. I know there is a lot of blind hatred of China, but I do believe that most of these people will learn to separate in their minds the concepts of China the country, The CCP Chinese ruling party, and the Chinese people. China was one of the greatest, longest enduring civilizations in history, up until Mao burned it to the ground. The 'wonderful economic growth' the CCP brags about shouldn't be worth much if they were the ones who annihilated it in the first place. We're all in this together, as people. It is wonderful to love your nation and be proud to work hard to further it, but we cannot ever let those with power silence the truth of the past. Don't hate the country. Don't hate the peole. Hate the Chinese Communist Party.
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
Mao Zedong was definitely a Machiavelli political thinker. He took the idea of being feared instead of loved too far. Love how you mentioned “the ends justify the means” from The Prince
@@nia6849 Japanese will always invade China no matter the timeline because it was relatively weak back then. However, Japan would never be able to conquer the whole of China due to logistical issues and eventually they woulda been pushed back.
Haughty Willow Deep State Henry Kissinger who met Mao in secret said he was a total Machiavellian who believed that “the preservation of the state…requires both ruthlessness and deceit at the expense of foreign and internal adversaries.”
Actually Machiavelli is highly misunderstood within the historical context, and his book "The Prince" was actually made to be read in an ironic or even satirical manor.
@@sageof6pandas233 You're partially right, but it is a great mistake to think Machiavelli was being satirical. While he is misunderstood (for instance, he says that if you use violence against your opponents and because of that you are forced to increase again the level of violence, then you're doing a bad job. So Mao is not a good leader from that point of view), he was also pretty serious in his writing and if you study his activity as a politicians in Florence you will see that he actually tries to follow some of the rules he wrote. There are also other books (Speeches about the art of war, for instance) in which you can find the exact same things about military policies that he says in the Prince
This is far too sympathetic, the floods were caused by Communist agricultural policy, and the salinization of land was not mentioned at all, not to mention some of the examples made it look almost justified. And it also left out important events like Marshal peng dehuai (Another long marcher)'s efforts to convince Mao of the problems, for which he was purged.
@@bhargavkelkar6877 Well, that was part of the problem, but deep plowing, de-forestation, planting the wrong crops, failed dams and other water project were a much larger problem.
You want to know something funny ? Chinese complain about Japanese making shrine for the ww2 warlords, but the themselves put this animal into a shrine.
@@funkyfranx, of course I know what it is. The definition is: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property.
As a Chinese, I can only say that none of you is qualified to evaluate him. How much do you know about China at that time? Have you seen what China looked like in 1900, 1921 and 1949? Have you checked any relevant data? Industrial output? Area of arable land and agricultural population? None of you. You don't know anything about China. Under this arrogance, your evaluation of him is so weak. As Chinese, we all know what he did wrong, and we all know what we have undertaken. But none of you is qualified to evaluate him.
@@sxzzsxzz2877 i agree. nobody understands that policies like the first five year plan and the great leap forward were policies that were intended to better china , which he had done already massively since the civil war. the policies were for good but went wrong due to chinas environmental state that was not fit for the agricultural policies that the ussr scientists suggested. ppl see bad outcomes and make assumptions
@@Quicksilver_Cookie he was a hero before the Great Leap Forward who reunited China and reached a truce with the US. This was a remarkable moment for all Chinese who experienced the century of humiliation. What he did afterwards ruined his reputation
“You think being doxxed is bad? Try being sent to a prison just for having an opinion”.. I wish people would pay more attention to history…it always repeats itself.
@@paleskins not as bad as giving people an incentive to do it in the first place. Is being doxxed bad? Are people gonna do it anyway? Yes, there’s always bad apples. Why would you give those bad apples rewards? Oh ya, social credit score so they feel justified in giving up their neighbors…..sounding familiar yet?
I wanna see them living in north korea for an entire year and then see how their opinions change about their country and how blessed they are to be born in a 1st world country in where you are given so much freedom of speech that you, the media, and basically everyone and everything can criticize your president without worrying of getting silenced by the government.
@@soulcatproductions sadly yes, they avoid content like this since it challenges their world view but you can find them on any video showing communism in a positive light.
@@masteroogway3816 no you're actually wrong, central asians belong to the central asian countries which include the republics of turkic origin (georgia not being one of them) stalin was a caucasian not a central asian
@Mr Jesus Stalin was Caucasian, but he was still of an ethnic group (Georgian) that is from Asia. An "Asian" doesn't necessarily have to be "Oriental", a term seldom used anymore referring to people from eastern and southeastern Asia. BTW, most of the ethnic groups native to India are Caucasian even though they usually have much darker complexions than the people from Europe.
In the book “Wild swans, daughters of China” there was a story of a man that, during the great leap (the great famine), cane crying into a police station begging to be executed, because he had done something terrible. Upon questioning, the man revealed he had had to eat his baby in order to survive.
In my final year of high school history class we did our paper on Mao and his life (mainly focusing on his rise to power and management of it) it was extremely interesting to put ourselves in his shoes and understanding the decisions he made e.g. Did Mao arrest critics of the “Hundred flower campaign” as a way of clearing opposition or did he genuinely tried to help the people but got scared by the sheer extent of criticism towards him (after all he did for them) prompting him to have a change in heart? History is very interesting once you debate the details and put yourself in the shoes of the protagonist.
It is indeed interesting. From my view, such thought experiments lie at the core of what is to me one of the best arguments against authoritarianism. Quite simply: Humans minds aren't made for having such large-scale influence. The most minute of decisions can have catastrophic consequences and your mental state is under constant extreme pressure. And of course, the people who have gotten themselves to such a position of power are rarely completely pure of heart from the start. To quote a great philosopher of our time: _"No one man should have all that power."_
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 you’re absolutely right. I completely agree with you when it comes to the dangers of relying too much power over to one individual. As a matter of fact after what we learned in class, we would join together and tell imaginary stories as to what we would do if we were Mao, and talking about that made us all envy his power and position. So yes I do agree that having too much power would most likely corrupt anyone. Even if you had initially good intentions.
9:39 ok, let me step in here for a bit: -He quickly industrialized the country -> He tried to, but he didn't have an inkling on how to produce steel. Even then he still forced people to give up their personal ironware and tossed them into furnaces hoping they'd turn to steel, they didn't. -China was then hit by devastating floods -> The Government says that and calls the event "the 3 year great starvation", but historians argue that while there are floods, the cause of this starvation is "30% natural, 70% man-made". Various additional reasons such as people being forced to change from farming to 'steel work', communal farms creating a disincentive since everyone shares the benefits no matter how much/little work they put in, over-inflated grain numbers due to competition between communities and policy failures also contributed to the ensuing hellscape. But yeah, the Chinese government are a bit bad at admitting faults at times, especially those aimed at Chairman Mao.
Seriously, I still see the scars of Mao's steelwork regimes here in China everywhere. Whole massive forests were cut down and literally every home was forced to have a steel mill, even if it meant that they abandoned their crops and people starved to death (which they did.) Seriously, even now in Western China you can see the damage done first hand, in the city I've lived in it's only been about four years that they planted enough trees to cover for the ones taken during Mao's time to stop the massive dust storms we had when I first moved here six years ago.
The famine was followed within a few years by the Cultural Revolution, which was definitely the doing of Mao, and that caused additional chaos and death. You wonder how China even survived most of the 20th century when you look at an overview of its history from 1910 through about 1990.
i did the research and math of massacres committed by the ccp and pro ccp people. The number was over 81 million people, in less than 100 years, the ccp has killed over 81 million people.
My thoughts on Mao - he’s the kind of leader you want when your people are under siege by a foreign power, but not the kind of leader you want when the conflict is over as he carries that war mentality over into times of relative peace.
You should know that from the birth of mankind until now, the war has never ended. You think the world is at peace just because war isn't happening right before your eyes.
he carries the war mentality even when the war is over because the revolution isn't over, they had to fight socialist revisionist from within until communism was achieved
The world health organization is an international group that can only use the information that corrupt countries give them. They want to be investigators but they're not. They're scientists, not detectives. If you want to do detective work for them and find the "real" numbers they'll be grateful to you.
@@theodorebear6714 So, why did the WHO refuse to help Taiwan? Why has the WHO snubbed anyone who asks them about Taiwan? Was that science? Or were they bending the knee to the Chinese dictators who refuse to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan?
You know, seeing chinese tourists these years what theyve done around on the planet sometimes I think the WHO isnt wrong with this one. Sometimes I think those chinese mates deserve the communist
Academia and government is controlled by Marxists, that defend anything in the name of socialist democracy. Look up Jordan Peterson for clarification and deeper explanation of the problem
@@NoZAutonomy Dunno about that one chief. I'd say the real reason is because it's up until not too long ago been too recent of an event. Today there are people who learn of Mao's regime as a part of the standard high school history curriculum. And I can also say that the view of Mao both held by the teachers and the books is far from biased towards Mao.
@@FRN2013 one child policy is needed tho... Otherwise overpopulation. Also abortion is okay till 3 months before organism manages to create eyes pain system etc
@@theworldoverheavan560 he was hired as a contractor by the NSA. he got acess to some info of homeland espionage the nsa did on the us citizens and he leaked that info then seeked asylum in russia
Lol lol! It's present at this very moment in almost every government in the world. Groups like BLF operate according to his philosophy. The irony which they miss is, he killed more of his own people than any other people.
Just more examples illustrate Chinese oppression. Thanks for pointing that out for any who might not know that Taiwan and Hong Kong happened after the "Cultural Devolution" and "The Great Leap Backward"!
Missing 2 important causes of the famine: - Communism resulted in less output from farmers as collective ownership resulted in less effort to work hard/innovate when everyone gets the same - The Four Pests Campaign - the four pests campaign had sparrows on the hit list, reason being that sparrows feed on the country's crops but unfortunately this had unintended consequences as they also ate locusts. Reduced sparrow population resulted an explosion of locust population which promptly swept through the crops Mao was responsible for both Communism and the Four Pests Campaign.
You know what results in less crop output? Famine. You know what causes famine? Yeah, pests, but more frequently? Over farming, which, as it turns out, was a *massive* problem during the "Leap Forward", because, well....ya know.....more people mean more food, and more industry means less people need to make said "more food".... soooo.......yeah. Let's talk about your comprehension of economic systems, *then* we can move on to discussing how their implementation changes the various aspects of society. ×cough× *it doesn't* ×cough×
For everyone who will see this comment section it's my appeal, if you want to make your country,your society better tolerant and peaceful and powerful please fill your brain as much as you can with knowledge. Not only science,medicine or economy but with philosophy also. Read different books from plato to Aristotle and from Marcus Aurelius to Marx. Be open for new ideas and equally for criticism. By this way we can make ourselves better and can choose better leadership for our countries. We can't change past but we can change our future.
Why on Earth would you include Marx? He was an intellectual child. Even less than a child, since even a child can figure out that "from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs" means everyone is incentivized to minimize their abilities and maximize their needs. Grow up.
@Ivan Frani You can find value in Marx without being a communist. Chris Matthew Sciabbara's Libertarianism mixes Objectivism and Austrian Economics with Marxist Dialectical Materialism; see Total Freedom: Towards a Dialectical Libertarianism. Kevin Carson's Anarchism Without Adjectives synthesises Mutualism/Individualist Anarchism with Autonomist Marxism and a Marxist critique of Political Economy. He also synthesises pre-marxist Labour Theory of Value with Austrian Time Preference.
@Dennis Carver you realize that the Black book of Communism is not our one and only source that documents the crimes of Mao Zedong? I find it fascinating that you criticize others for believing in“Western propaganda” whilst simultaneously spewing communist propaganda.
@Dennis Carver when discussing about a person and their overall quality, we must always judge the negatives against the positives. In this case specifically, Mao’s negatives overshadow the positives to such an extent, that it becomes ultimately pointless to congratulate him on what he got right. (Which was very little to begin with) I don’t deny the good he did, I’m simply stating that he had much more of a negative influence.
@Dennis Carver I do. Why is it so easy for you to disregard the death of tens-of-millions of his own citizens? Any form of government that involves that many dead innocent people, has to be a guaranteed no go, bro.
It’s kind of interesting though, because the Chinese still respect and look up to this guy. Some have a completely different aspect of him and many see him as a hero. I’m Chinese BTW and I live in China
If someone like Mao could ever be revered, then that means that there's something seriously wrong with the way we look at history. Monsters like him have to be remembered for what they truly were.
@@lucyadam9128 Who? He wasn’t a “good” or “moral” with our MODERN standards but for the time they did pretty regular stuff like slaughtering people sacking villages and cities and that’s all. He still wasn’t a good person though, it’s just our modern morals make people from 700 years ago look worse then they were for the time period.
@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme do you even know what dictator means ? Dictator is a person who behaves in an autocratic way, not someone who commits genocide
@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme LOL you should learn that it’s not because someone DID something or is bad that he is a dictator, and the genocides isn’t an argument. Anyway the OTAN membres have financed as much genocides and it’s democracy, you need to see all the little distinctions to understand history
I'm so thankful to live in a day and age when I can absorb meaningful knowledge from educational cartoons instead of having to read books. Thank you, RUclips!
My grandfather was suffered at that dark time, his parents died very early, leaving him and hisyounger brother, when he was eight, our village ''has to pull down one house'' to fight against capitalism, no one wants their house to be the chosen one, so they pull down my grandfather's. Every time I think about this, I feel a lot sorry for him.
@@aweslayne you cant blame a starving man for his diet's too unhealthy, Chinese life quality is way better than before,life's way better than yesterday , so there are less complain. I dont mean our society dosnt have problems, its just econamical growth is far more attractive.
That’s not right, in July 4th 1989, [this section of the comment was taken down by the CCP]. Don’t [this section of the comment was taken down by the CCP].
@Reece A Not to mention constitutions are supposed to restrict the power of government, not expand it. Furthermore it would be a violation freedom of religion/freedom of expression, thus breaking the first amendment.
What I learned is that Mao had his army do little to fight off the Japanese compared to the Nationalists, who were left to do the heavy lifting. This was a calculated move by Mao to ensure that they would be weak after the fall of Japan and easy to defeat.
In what circumstances does "the end justify the means"? Was Mao right to think that way?
The Infographics Show IDK
Probably not
Ah, here we go. The 10cent army is here. Either that or tankies.
Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pieces
@Moonbat Must be nice to being a tyrant apologist.
This Mao guy must be important... my cat won't stop talking about him.
How does this not have all the likes?
🤣👏 funniest comment.
And the winner is....☝🏻☝🏻 that guy
Ivan Chiew oof
'Mao' means cat in Chinese
He's still on their currency.
OUR currency
EVERY CURRENCY
EVERY PAPER MADE IN CHINA
Rookie the communist party not the country itself.
His body is still preserved in a museum. Although he wanted to be cremated.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
This quote is so true.
Based on recent events, china seems to be adamant on repeating history ...
I wish people would stop quoting that movie already
@@elenajohnson6336 Why not it is true, there are other examples like Phoinex Johnes the hero with pepper spray as a weapon and a 10000 dollars bulletproof suit (yes this is real)
Nah.. he was never a hero. he's a villain who turned into an extreme villain.
Except Mao was never a hero.
Stalin: One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic
Mao: mafs
mafs?
stonks
Maths 🔺
Mao: China has a statistic now
10.5% of the U.S. population was in poverty in 2019 (Before pandemic)
Whereas
0.6 percent of the Chinese population live in poverty in 2021
Stop American propaganda!!!
The NBA officially condemns this video.
"We like money" -NBA monkey
Haha😂😂
然而在中国nba并没有道歉 我们很不高兴 在美国你们又认为对中国不够强硬 真是可笑
如果哪一天中国企业公开反对政治正确 宣扬种族歧视 你们会开心吗
在中国 国家主权高于一切 尤其高于言论自由
你们就在特朗普（t boy)领导的粪坑(sXXt hole)国家中溺死吧
@改变自己 宁已经被华尔街的老爷们调教成耗耐母猪了 他们说什么能当然会信 宁可真睾贵
一条资本的舔狗 吃屎去吧
@@刘博闻-k7h .......
Mao: *reads too many books*
Also Mao: "To read too many books is harmful."
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Mind control tactics
Late Mao became a total whackjob. Early Mao absolutely believed in education and empowering the peasantry. It's the reason his successor, Deng Xiaoping, stepped down upon reaching an age in which Deng deemed himself unfit to rule.
This text is often taken out of context. What Mao means by this quote is that the communists should find a balance between reading communist theory and organizing communist movements. He felt that too many communists sat around reading instead of building communism.
@Defox ur probably right but wouldnt that affect the development of his country??? leaving them exposed to better technology from other countries??
@@goyomain0774 So that's why the PLA spend around 75% of their time digesting and regurgitating communist manifesto rather than actual combat training.The CCP relies more on brainwashing it's protective force instead of actual military skills.Keep in mind the PLA is there to protect the CCP,not the Chinese people who in turn are brainwashed into believing they are protected by the iron fist of the CCP.
Chinese history makes me very very sad, especially since I was brainwashed to think that none of this happened. It is such a shock in the beginning that I was depressed for a few days.
That is what the government wants you to be ignorant of their atrocities.
Don't feel so sad. This video is full of equivocations. Come to the understanding that there is propaganda everywhere, and then you can critique from a nuanced perspective.
The government doesn’t want you know anything ; they wish to keep you weak with ignorance.
@@unifieddynasty this video looks like in China communists did same things as communists did in Soviet Union under rule of Stalin. And real people who saw that times (in former Soviet Union) are still alive and they say same things as in this video. So I can assume that this video is based on real history and it is truth since Mao learned how to rule and destroy his own people from Soviet communists and Stalin in particular.
@@ПрикладнаЕкономіка Look, I get it, from your username, you're Ukrainian right? I hope you understand that it is not my intention to insult what happened to the Ukrainians by pointing out that Stalin is still ranked at among the top of favourability polls in the former USSR. My point is not that you are wrong, but that the world isn't black and white, and this video, in particular, has many equivocations.
“Is history doomed to repeat itself? We doubt it.”
History - “Hold my beer”.
History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes - Mark twain
It definitely will when main stream media, entertainment industry, and social media constantly promote communist ideas.
@@dud3man6969 and who said communism is bad? Communist societies are still going strong in the 2020s just like Capitalist and socialist societies. It’s all a matter of preference and propaganda honestly 🤷🏽♂️. You born in America, you preferably capitalism. Born in Europe, socialism,. Born in China, communism. I’m American, so I prefer capitalism, but that’s because that’s all I’ve known my whole life. Doesn’t mean I think there is anything wrong or evil with Socialism or communism 🤷🏽♂️
@@marcellus8049 yes I agree
@@dud3man6969 You can't actually believed that my guy. It's literally the exact opposite.
Yet he’s barely mentioned in history class
Who's your history teacher? I would like to speak with him/her
Nikolaus Ryczek Lol really? He’s mentioned in detail in mine
Because Socialist teachers don’t want you to know about the countless horrors of left-wing dictators
So as the evil side of western leaders such as Winston Churchill 😂
@White Chocolate Done under FDR, one of the most vile people to ever get elected to the presidency.
Forcing parents to bury their child is messed up
@ Communism has never worked 😂
Chase BUT REAL COMMUNISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED /s
Children ? You mean unwanted or damaging resources.
@@PedloProductions lol.
The worst wars and people come from socialist/communist. The people have no control and are manipulated by the media. If people are in control we have no desire to hurt each other nor goto war.
Mao would most likely say- the hardest choices require the strongest wills
Like Thanos?
but they do
and thats way it so terrifyingly true but):
@@ethanc3522 lol
It takes eggs to make an omelet, but some just like cracking eggs
@@maninthehills7134 ok.... Wheres the ompet?
Im chinese, my grandma was a teacher during the great leap and the cultural revolution. This one time, a group of the red guards stormed the school and humiliated my grandma by shaving her head. All in the name of Mao and communism. This kind of cruelty and humiliation happened to many many people in china. interesting thing is, my grandma as well as most senior citizens in china still worship communism and especially Mao. I don't know if the reason is because of what he did for china during WWII or if they only do it out of fear.
either fear or brainwash
Based
I'd imagine the massive increase in quality of life for the Chinese people is one of the reasons?
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor very based when he did that
Fear and brainwashing. It's extremely powerful, it becomes hardwired. The government has suppressed the truth since Mao came into power, the Chinese have never been free this past century
Mao: started from agricultural family, studying economics and agriculture and starving millions. The irony.
"To read too many books is harmful".
Doesn't make sense. How can you starve millions when they are largely self-sufficient and dependent on agriculture???
@@angelamagnus6615 He sent them into factories lol.
@@angelamagnus6615 "How can you starve millions when they are largely self-sufficient and dependent on agriculture???"
Well, by centralizing all power on the State and making them dependent on the State, and thus no longer self-sufficient.
People were not allowed to eat what they produced. Everything went to the State, and the State redistributed as it saw fit. This redistribution was often inefficient. Some of the areas that had the most famine, were also areas that produced the most, but they could not eat the food they produced themselves. They had to wait for the State to feed them. The extra transportation and logistics reduces efficiency, and lack of insight and speed by the government causes people to go hungry.
All farms and tools were appropriated by the State, and collectivized. People were divided in parties, and these parties would have to meet monthly quotas of production.
Hungry people get weak, and weak people produce less. They wouldn't be able to meet their quotas, and thus would be penalized and receive less food as well. It became a vicious cycle.
Farmers were forbidden to use their own techniques, instead being forced to follow instructions provided by the State. Many of the new techniques propagated from this were later found to be prejudicial and inefficient.
Because of the severe penalties for not meeting quotas, lower officials started over-reporting their production. This led the higher brass to believe they had more grain than they really had. The people who would distribute the grain would notice the lack of it, but couldn't report it either. If they reported grain missing, they could be deemed responsible for losing it. Thus people higher up would think there was more grain going around than in reality.
The State identified that part of the yield was being eaten by sparrows, so they mandated that all sparrows be exterminated. They were. In the following years, pests and blights grew exceedingly worse, since their former natural predator was taken away from the picture.
They also blamed part of it on natural incidents such as droughts etc.
Lastly, many people were taken away from the field to work on the iron and steel industries, among others.
In the end, yield went down as low as 15% of the former amounts, before Mao took charge. You can see how capitalism was more efficient than his system because then each farm was responsible for it's own production, would develop their own techniques and strive to be as efficient as possible. They would eat from their own yield, and try to make as much as possible in order to sell the remainder and make money.
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
Fun fact: Xi Jinping's father was among the reformist officials who got persecuted under Mao's reign.
Xi Jinping is an evil dictator. I don't hate the regime fully though, but I can't stand Western hypocrisy.
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
@@angelamagnus6615 no he isn't shut up 😝😝😠😠😠
@E Smidt the Chinese seems to like or fear him. But anyway how is America and what do you think of your own country?
Bruh
Infographics show: why Mao Zedong was the most brutal tyrant
China: *TRIGGERED*
oscar ruiz I mean no one in china can see this video legally because of their censorship laws
@@nick2sws lol true
You know vpn is always being used in China
@@Ethereal-uq3qv just curious, what's the point of a huge internet firewall if people can use vpn ??
@@vishalgiraddi5357 Dumb people can't. :p
One thing the video missed. Mao himself caused the famine. He ordered sparrows and other birds to be killed because they were a nuisance and they were losing crops. Then came the mosquitos and locusts. They lost way more crops to the locusts and the mosquitos were way more of a nuisance. Just to stop losing crops farmers had to over use pesticides. This is why a lot of stuff from China is questionable.
My parents and grandparents lived through “The Great Leap Forward.” My grandparents were doctors and educators. People Mao didn’t like.
Fortunately my parents immigrated to the USA and my brother and I were born here.
Still people seem to have a worship or fear of the guy. Growing up in the US I’ve insulted and protested quite often. I’ve had my parents talk me out in fear of being arrested. I’ve had to remind them that I live in the US. As long as I don’t cause any major trouble I can say whatever I want.
I think that you massively oversimplified the causes of the famine following the great leap forward.
First of all the harvest was bad due to things like flooding for example. Secondly, a lot of farmers had been moved to industry because someone thought it was a good idea, which is really the only part that can be called poor planning. Then also, an "expert" from Russia told people to farm in a specific way which didn't work on Chinese soil so a lot of crops died. On top of that local governments were misreporting food production so the central government didn't even know that a famine was starting to take shape and therefore couldn't react.
The famine was an unfortunate result of unlucky events and incorrect information. None of it was intentional like many people like to say, and Mao didn't cause it.
he also put people with no expirience to run the crops, also my grandparents were both doctors and their parents were very wealthy, my great grandparents were killed by the red army, and my grandpa was put to work in the fields. My dad was born then too, but thankfully we immigrated to the US
@@Sahtoovi lol sure buddy
@@StoicRoadz Excellent argument. I have realized my mistakes and will retract my statement, as your comment proved me wrong.
@@Sahtoovi I've always considered Mao to be someone with good intentions that let his ego blind him from his own bad decisions. He is not without blame as he was in basically charge (if he didn't exist there would not have been a famine. In other words - desicions he made led to the famine).
The ones who ran away to form Taiwan in a democratic system have been way more successful than China by many measures.
Why do I get the feeling in a couple years this video is going to be banned from youtube
I'm surprised it is not in a limited state.
Trump is the Right Mao
@@joshuagoss9969 wrong you must ban guns in order for that to happen bernie is the guy who would do something like this though
I am surprise it is not banned now
sherry b should we ban forks and cars too?
The amount of people here trying to justify his leadership and ideology is pitiful. And the kids comparing him to movie characters like "Thanos" just makes an old man sigh.
Thanos and Darth Vader are what you call "fun villains" because they're fictional.
Mao, Stalin, and Castro were just criminals.
"old man"? or some westerner who only learns history through youtube bs.
@@tnndll4294 How can you make a fair judgement of Mao when you only hear one side of the story.I suggest you take a study at the 2008 subprime crisis,those Wall Street people are the true criminal and while millions of people loses their houses because of their criminal activities,they escaped the law.
@@tnndll4294
Wow see why we dont believe your propoganda where is churchill bush senior bush the son... a
😂😂😂
There is a disturbing amount of Mao apologists
Britain says hi
Germanys Green Party and the Party "Die Linke" are full of these.
Yeah, they wear Mao t-shirts when their Che t-shirts are in the wash.
Just brainless student or Chinese wumao. China is in the middle of an information war since Winnie the pooh came to power you know.
@Kylo Ren Thank you for your integrity; many people, Chinese as well as others, are finally learning about the true horror of the Great Leap Forward. I know there is a lot of blind hatred of China, but I do believe that most of these people will learn to separate in their minds the concepts of China the country, The CCP Chinese ruling party, and the Chinese people.
China was one of the greatest, longest enduring civilizations in history, up until Mao burned it to the ground. The 'wonderful economic growth' the CCP brags about shouldn't be worth much if they were the ones who annihilated it in the first place. We're all in this together, as people. It is wonderful to love your nation and be proud to work hard to further it, but we cannot ever let those with power silence the truth of the past.
Don't hate the country. Don't hate the peole.
Hate the Chinese Communist Party.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed
-Mao Zedong
I told them that Mao was evil. No one ever listens...
Lol
@United states of America
CHINA is just behind your door 😂😂
RIP America
Bruh Lenny said same thing about you, you abusive rough man.
Stalin was evil too
The current evaluation of Mao Zedong comes from his enemies and political opponents. It must be fake. In history, Mao Zedong was a great man born every 500 years, a guy who beat Americans all over the floor.
Imagine living in a country where they STILL hang pictures of this guy.
They still have pictures up of Benito Mussolini in Italy.
Jeez
I went to a university in China where they have built a statue of him, a giant one at that.
In my country we still have pictures of Josip Broz Tito hanging around the city.
Should put that thing in a museum
I love how leaders like this always seem to meticulously document their own crimes.
It's called "progress"
They wouldn't see their actions as crimes so it makes sense
@@presidentofchina2236 lol. Please tell me you created this account just for this video.
@@EdmundKempersDartboard I created it because I have left my grave and have learned English.
President of China and you’ve winnie pooh on your pp
"The ends justify the means"
That should be his catchphrase
Mao Zedong was definitely a Machiavelli political thinker. He took the idea of being feared instead of loved too far. Love how you mentioned “the ends justify the means” from The Prince
@@nia6849 Japanese will always invade China no matter the timeline because it was relatively weak back then. However, Japan would never be able to conquer the whole of China due to logistical issues and eventually they woulda been pushed back.
Haughty Willow Deep State Henry Kissinger who met Mao in secret said he was a total Machiavellian who believed that “the preservation of the state…requires both ruthlessness and deceit at the expense of foreign and internal adversaries.”
Cesare Borgia Intensified😂
Actually Machiavelli is highly misunderstood within the historical context, and his book "The Prince" was actually made to be read in an ironic or even satirical manor.
@@sageof6pandas233 You're partially right, but it is a great mistake to think Machiavelli was being satirical. While he is misunderstood (for instance, he says that if you use violence against your opponents and because of that you are forced to increase again the level of violence, then you're doing a bad job. So Mao is not a good leader from that point of view), he was also pretty serious in his writing and if you study his activity as a politicians in Florence you will see that he actually tries to follow some of the rules he wrote. There are also other books (Speeches about the art of war, for instance) in which you can find the exact same things about military policies that he says in the Prince
This is far too sympathetic, the floods were caused by Communist agricultural policy, and the salinization of land was not mentioned at all, not to mention some of the examples made it look almost justified. And it also left out important events like Marshal peng dehuai (Another long marcher)'s efforts to convince Mao of the problems, for which he was purged.
kevinjjfr fitzpatrick not to mention they made it sound like Mao fought against the japanese we he actually helped them against the nationalists
Dude. Whered u get your data
yep so true Mao chose Communism that's the problem
They killed sparrows
@@bhargavkelkar6877 Well, that was part of the problem, but deep plowing, de-forestation, planting the wrong crops, failed dams and other water project were a much larger problem.
The guy who killed 45 million people is placed in Tiananmen square as a hero. What a joke!
Communism is poison and it should never be touched upon...EVER!😡
cult of personality~ the Chinese people don't know that. they don't even know what happened in Tiananmen Square.
You want to know something funny ? Chinese complain about Japanese making shrine for the ww2 warlords, but the themselves put this animal into a shrine.
@@kyrohowe3156 I don't think you know what communism even is.
@@funkyfranx, of course I know what it is. The definition is: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property.
The fact that 4.7k people in our time disliked this and probably embrace Maos doctrine is terrifying.
Lol you should check out the Instagrams. They are psychotic
Yeah. Big yikes from me man
As a Chinese, I can only say that none of you is qualified to evaluate him. How much do you know about China at that time? Have you seen what China looked like in 1900, 1921 and 1949? Have you checked any relevant data? Industrial output? Area of arable land and agricultural population? None of you.
You don't know anything about China. Under this arrogance, your evaluation of him is so weak.
As Chinese, we all know what he did wrong, and we all know what we have undertaken. But none of you is qualified to evaluate him.
@@sxzzsxzz2877 good one
@@sxzzsxzz2877 i agree. nobody understands that policies like the first five year plan and the great leap forward were policies that were intended to better china , which he had done already massively since the civil war. the policies were for good but went wrong due to chinas environmental state that was not fit for the agricultural policies that the ussr scientists suggested. ppl see bad outcomes and make assumptions
I'm afraid my cat is a Mao apologist. I can't even open the fridge without her screaming Mao's name repeatedly.
Lol
Funny
Did laugh
Cause it's not your fridge, it's our fridge.
MEOW
based cat
"Either you die a hero or live long enough to see your self become the villain" quote The dark knight
What it has to do with Mao? He never was a hero.
@@Quicksilver_Cookie he was a hero before the Great Leap Forward who reunited China and reached a truce with the US. This was a remarkable moment for all Chinese who experienced the century of humiliation. What he did afterwards ruined his reputation
Adam P he was never a hero though.
Chris Zou perhaps executing 5 million people prior to the Great Leap Forward is what contributed to his decayed reputation too?
his wife died just a year later at 21 yrs old? Nothing wrong here
ikr
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Hi There he probably killed her... duh
Alex Hunt k
@@alexhunt. he was joking he knows
“You think being doxxed is bad? Try being sent to a prison just for having an opinion”..
I wish people would pay more attention to history…it always repeats itself.
Being doxxed is bad regardless
@@paleskins not as bad as giving people an incentive to do it in the first place. Is being doxxed bad? Are people gonna do it anyway? Yes, there’s always bad apples. Why would you give those bad apples rewards? Oh ya, social credit score so they feel justified in giving up their neighbors…..sounding familiar yet?
@@Potluckization If what you say gets you fired/kicked out of school, then it's just your fault.
It's repeating itself already in supposed First world nations like the UK, and Australia.
Hipity hopity your rice fields are now my propert
~mao zedong
jake Bob hippity hoppity
Books are now illegal property
~mao zedong
Hippity hoppity you're the government's property
~Mao Zedong
Don’t you mean *our* property?
*The peasants'
It's free estate.
Mao basically made the rich poor and the poor even poorer.
all commies are the same
@GhostDogg o you said it
GhostDogg o still, in that regime, everybody is equal just some a more equal than others
That is correct! And that is what communism leads to
That's not true! All I did was remove some food from their table.
Fun fact:
Maos own personal doctor revealed after his death that Mao had sociopathic tendencies and was very narsistic.
You might be cellmates
What a surprise...
Unsurprising.
not a fun fact. everyone knows that he is a psyco
Like nearly any other dictator that has existed in human history.
I'm just here for the comments from American teenagers who call themselves maoist
They are all INSANE
I wanna see them living in north korea for an entire year and then see how their opinions change about their country and how blessed they are to be born in a 1st world country in where you are given so much freedom of speech that you, the media, and basically everyone and everything can criticize your president without worrying of getting silenced by the government.
They exist?
@@soulcatproductions sadly yes, they avoid content like this since it challenges their world view but you can find them on any video showing communism in a positive light.
They dont have fathers.
Mao was like Stalin's Asian brother, if you asked about his mustache, it's off to the gulag. Ask Mao about his hair style, it's off to the gulag.
😂😂 W
Kenneth Bowers Stalin described himself as belonging to an asiatic tribe and he was in fact a central asian
@@masteroogway3816 no you're actually wrong, central asians belong to the central asian countries which include the republics of turkic origin (georgia not being one of them) stalin was a caucasian not a central asian
@Mr Jesus Stalin was Caucasian, but he was still of an ethnic group (Georgian) that is from Asia. An "Asian" doesn't necessarily have to be "Oriental", a term seldom used anymore referring to people from eastern and southeastern Asia. BTW, most of the ethnic groups native to India are Caucasian even though they usually have much darker complexions than the people from Europe.
kennedy is like he always had just one leg on a brick，his legs dont look like each other
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We have a social credit system in Germany too
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@@Predestinated1 Hehe if it only was that simple. Unfortunately 1984 is real and we are doomed.
Nice
Nice
Thanos: am I a joke to you?
Edit: Thanks for all the likes
Thanos did nothing wrong
@@TGoO14 are u serious
@@bruhfist9450 absolutely
@@TGoO14 he killed Spiderman 🤕
@@bruhfist9450 an acceptable casualty
I was not brutal. -10,000 Social Credit
Taiwan is China's territory 🇨🇳
I didn't like my aunt till now... That's effed up, lol 😂😂😂
That cold bruh
@@amandax8901 yeah it is, lol 😂
In the book “Wild swans, daughters of China” there was a story of a man that, during the great leap (the great famine), cane crying into a police station begging to be executed, because he had done something terrible. Upon questioning, the man revealed he had had to eat his baby in order to survive.
The WHO be like: What’s a Taiwan?
Lucky Taiwan
Where Mario saved Princess Peach
Taiwan means China in the Chinese regime.
In my final year of high school history class we did our paper on Mao and his life (mainly focusing on his rise to power and management of it) it was extremely interesting to put ourselves in his shoes and understanding the decisions he made e.g. Did Mao arrest critics of the “Hundred flower campaign” as a way of clearing opposition or did he genuinely tried to help the people but got scared by the sheer extent of criticism towards him (after all he did for them) prompting him to have a change in heart? History is very interesting once you debate the details and put yourself in the shoes of the protagonist.
@Bob Stone I’m terms of the man in focus as we followed everything trying in his point of view, don’t get offended by that
It is indeed interesting.
From my view, such thought experiments lie at the core of what is to me one of the best arguments against authoritarianism.
Quite simply: Humans minds aren't made for having such large-scale influence. The most minute of decisions can have catastrophic consequences and your mental state is under constant extreme pressure. And of course, the people who have gotten themselves to such a position of power are rarely completely pure of heart from the start.
To quote a great philosopher of our time: _"No one man should have all that power."_
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 you’re absolutely right. I completely agree with you when it comes to the dangers of relying too much power over to one individual. As a matter of fact after what we learned in class, we would join together and tell imaginary stories as to what we would do if we were Mao, and talking about that made us all envy his power and position. So yes I do agree that having too much power would most likely corrupt anyone. Even if you had initially good intentions.
All tyrants are malignant narcissists. They have zero good intentions.
You must remember that humans can be the worst monster’s on the planet
9:39 ok, let me step in here for a bit:
-He quickly industrialized the country -> He tried to, but he didn't have an inkling on how to produce steel. Even then he still forced people to give up their personal ironware and tossed them into furnaces hoping they'd turn to steel, they didn't.
-China was then hit by devastating floods -> The Government says that and calls the event "the 3 year great starvation", but historians argue that while there are floods, the cause of this starvation is "30% natural, 70% man-made". Various additional reasons such as people being forced to change from farming to 'steel work', communal farms creating a disincentive since everyone shares the benefits no matter how much/little work they put in, over-inflated grain numbers due to competition between communities and policy failures also contributed to the ensuing hellscape.
But yeah, the Chinese government are a bit bad at admitting faults at times, especially those aimed at Chairman Mao.
Seriously, I still see the scars of Mao's steelwork regimes here in China everywhere. Whole massive forests were cut down and literally every home was forced to have a steel mill, even if it meant that they abandoned their crops and people starved to death (which they did.)
Seriously, even now in Western China you can see the damage done first hand, in the city I've lived in it's only been about four years that they planted enough trees to cover for the ones taken during Mao's time to stop the massive dust storms we had when I first moved here six years ago.
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@@jasperbudiono295 A lot of countries was invaded, America was one a colonies, dont blamed the failure of a murderous dictator to situation.
The famine was followed within a few years by the Cultural Revolution, which was definitely the doing of Mao, and that caused additional chaos and death. You wonder how China even survived most of the 20th century when you look at an overview of its history from 1910 through about 1990.
smart healthy people
The tyranny didn't end it just toned back a bit.
Supposedly, this pushed the population to eat anything available and, thus, inevitably lead to eating any and all animals (e.g., bats).
@@NotSureNotSureNotSure Actually, people in China had been eating bats and anything else edible for centuries.
i did the research and math of massacres committed by the ccp and pro ccp people. The number was over 81 million people, in less than 100 years, the ccp has killed over 81 million people.
The power and potential for destruction that we humans have is truly sickening.
e have saved far more than we have killed in the last century something you misanthropes always seem to forget.
Which is why humanity’s greatest power is our ability to choose. We choose wether or not to destroy or create
The fact that school didnt teach me about this man is disgusting.
They teach it in ap world history
@@eye-yamstewpeed8254 Honors world history too
My thoughts on Mao - he’s the kind of leader you want when your people are under siege by a foreign power, but not the kind of leader you want when the conflict is over as he carries that war mentality over into times of relative peace.
You should know that from the birth of mankind until now, the war has never ended. You think the world is at peace just because war isn't happening right before your eyes.
he carries the war mentality even when the war is over because the revolution isn't over, they had to fight socialist revisionist from within until communism was achieved
Mao isn't the kind of leader you want ever.
@@adamjenson9369 he did contributed alot of good stuff to marxist theory and scientific socialism tho
I think I'd prefer FDR or Churchill.
"merely had their nose or ears cut off"
Seems like a lot of mercy!
News just in, the WHO think mao did a fantastic job
XD
The world health organization is an international group that can only use the information that corrupt countries give them. They want to be investigators but they're not. They're scientists, not detectives. If you want to do detective work for them and find the "real" numbers they'll be grateful to you.
@@theodorebear6714 So, why did the WHO refuse to help Taiwan? Why has the WHO snubbed anyone who asks them about Taiwan? Was that science? Or were they bending the knee to the Chinese dictators who refuse to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan?
You know, seeing chinese tourists these years what theyve done around on the planet sometimes I think the WHO isnt wrong with this one. Sometimes I think those chinese mates deserve the communist
WHO is corrupt
Anyone else wondering why they don't teach this to us in school?
Academia and government is controlled by Marxists, that defend anything in the name of socialist democracy. Look up Jordan Peterson for clarification and deeper explanation of the problem
@@NoZAutonomy If only
@@NoZAutonomy Dunno about that one chief.
I'd say the real reason is because it's up until not too long ago been too recent of an event. Today there are people who learn of Mao's regime as a part of the standard high school history curriculum. And I can also say that the view of Mao both held by the teachers and the books is far from biased towards Mao.
Yeah, too bad.
History WILL repeat itself. It's just a matter of how accurately.
China became even more brutal after Mao. 100,000,000 forced abortions under the one-child policy, for example.
itsnotaboutme ur dumb if u think that lol
well see, no one can tell for sure
@@FRN2013 one child policy is needed tho... Otherwise overpopulation. Also abortion is okay till 3 months before organism manages to create eyes pain system etc
I wonder what the policy is after that 3 months? Forced adoption?
Next Why USA was afraid of Edward snowden
who is that?
@@theworldoverheavan560 he was hired as a contractor by the NSA. he got acess to some info of homeland espionage the nsa did on the us citizens and he leaked that info then seeked asylum in russia
He is a Former CIA Employee who is Currently Living in Russia (Asylum)
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@@Nova3482 Lol, no one's afraid of him.
I did 3 projects on this guy in high school, I got a 86, 92, and a 13 😂
The 13 was from an apologist
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@@mikeg4490 No issue with that
It hurts to think there are people who praise this dictator
Just like the idiots who wear Che tshirts.
Blizzard: I like him
美国政府：我也喜欢你 小傻瓜
@@刘博闻-k7h ?
@@edward658 转移注意力到外国 自己就能搞事了
@@刘博闻-k7h gunga gingengaa gunga gingengaa
@@tonzennegger7185 ay bro same
*"...will history repeat itself? We doubt it?"*
1 year later after Corona: would you like to retract that statement?
i know right!
What a phenomenally unwise thing to say
Lol lol! It's present at this very moment in almost every government in the world. Groups like BLF operate according to his philosophy. The irony which they miss is, he killed more of his own people than any other people.
@@nicolaeceausescu2434 we can easily buy who executive
@__________________ it’s not man made. You would be able to tell when you look at intricately
History always repeats itself my friend. Always.
WHAT?! HOW DARE YOU
-10000000000000000 SOCIAL CREDIT 😡🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Where’s Tibet in this story? It’s a big part of his cruel reign
Or Mongolia, or the fate of the chinese Muslims, or Taiwan and hong kong, or ect., ect., ect...
Brian Mariani Taiwan and Hong Kong were never under Mao’s rule though.p
Just more examples illustrate Chinese oppression. Thanks for pointing that out for any who might not know that Taiwan and Hong Kong happened after the "Cultural Devolution" and "The Great Leap Backward"!
Tibet is Chinese ofc
Tibet was freed by Mao 🇨🇳
Until we know and understand our history, we are destined to repeat our mistakes. Forgive the past but don't forget.
Missing 2 important causes of the famine:
- Communism resulted in less output from farmers as collective ownership resulted in less effort to work hard/innovate when everyone gets the same
- The Four Pests Campaign - the four pests campaign had sparrows on the hit list, reason being that sparrows feed on the country's crops but unfortunately this had unintended consequences as they also ate locusts. Reduced sparrow population resulted an explosion of locust population which promptly swept through the crops
Mao was responsible for both Communism and the Four Pests Campaign.
ikr what a horrible guy
This is so wrong on so many levels. Nobody ever claimed people under socialism are paid the same. This is absurd.
You know what results in less crop output? Famine. You know what causes famine? Yeah, pests, but more frequently? Over farming, which, as it turns out, was a *massive* problem during the "Leap Forward", because, well....ya know.....more people mean more food, and more industry means less people need to make said "more food".... soooo.......yeah. Let's talk about your comprehension of economic systems, *then* we can move on to discussing how their implementation changes the various aspects of society.
×cough× *it doesn't* ×cough×
"I didn't like my aunt until now" 😂😂😂😭😭😭 so messed up
Make a video about King Leopold II
Of Belgium?
gamer girl yup greedy delusional man .he never went there either .read heart of darkness
Than watch Bio graphics Show about him
@Vic Viquor Leo the lion.
The Great CooLite really wanna see that
For everyone who will see this comment section it's my appeal, if you want to make your country,your society better tolerant and peaceful and powerful please fill your brain as much as you can with knowledge. Not only science,medicine or economy but with philosophy also. Read different books from plato to Aristotle and from Marcus Aurelius to Marx. Be open for new ideas and equally for criticism. By this way we can make ourselves better and can choose better leadership for our countries. We can't change past but we can change our future.
well said friend
Why on Earth would you include Marx? He was an intellectual child. Even less than a child, since even a child can figure out that "from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs" means everyone is incentivized to minimize their abilities and maximize their needs. Grow up.
Well said
@Ivan Frani You can find value in Marx without being a communist.
Chris Matthew Sciabbara's Libertarianism mixes Objectivism and Austrian Economics with Marxist Dialectical Materialism; see Total Freedom: Towards a Dialectical Libertarianism.
Kevin Carson's Anarchism Without Adjectives synthesises Mutualism/Individualist Anarchism with Autonomist Marxism and a Marxist critique of Political Economy. He also synthesises pre-marxist Labour Theory of Value with Austrian Time Preference.
@@stevecarey2030 See my comment above.
I just want to ask Mike Tyson why he has Mao face tatted on his arm 🤔
@Dennis Carver you realize that the Black book of Communism is not our one and only source that documents the crimes of Mao Zedong? I find it fascinating that you criticize others for believing in“Western propaganda” whilst simultaneously spewing communist propaganda.
@Dennis Carver when discussing about a person and their overall quality, we must always judge the negatives against the positives. In this case specifically, Mao’s negatives overshadow the positives to such an extent, that it becomes ultimately pointless to congratulate him on what he got right. (Which was very little to begin with) I don’t deny the good he did, I’m simply stating that he had much more of a negative influence.
@Dennis Carver I do. Why is it so easy for you to disregard the death of tens-of-millions of his own citizens? Any form of government that involves that many dead innocent people, has to be a guaranteed no go, bro.
It's bcus he's a big fan of conqueror
Thankfully you, some random on RUclips, knows the REAL truth. Teach us please
Those who forget the past are destine to relive it.
Oh no I grew up loving poetry, fighting with my Dad, along with being unruly and schools trying to kick me out!! Dang I guess I got to be a dictator
Don't do it.
@@johnycoho7830 He was making a joke most likely. That sentence sounds sarcastic, not real.
you gotta have have that haircut with the lumpy sides to pull it off
During the famine, they turned to cannibalism but they were hungry again half an hour afterwards.
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@@eliasziad7864 it's a joke about how after you eat Chinese your just hungry again in an hour. Used to be a mainstream joke in the 80s
So many people missed this joke. Underrated
"His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping
. This world is mine for the taking, make me king..." -Mao Zedong in 1936
"As we move toward a, new world order
, A normal life is boring''
It’s kind of interesting though, because the Chinese still respect and look up to this guy. Some have a completely different aspect of him and many see him as a hero. I’m Chinese BTW and I live in China
Why do you think that is?
How do you have access to RUclips in China and how are you typing against them?
@@HeyitsmeGoku-pf5xe It’s called VPN and I’m Chinese Canadian 😊 and I’m not typing against them I’m just observing.
@@-S.9
K then but I heard that using vpn in China if of no use.
@@HeyitsmeGoku-pf5xe I’m using a VPN from the US
The number of mid-roll ads on these videos makes me want to puke
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9:32 almost all the steel produced during this period were useless. Instead of steel, the backyard furnaces produced pig iron.
what's pig iron
Walking Guy it's steel that's too high in carbon, making it brittle and unusable. Though you can further refine it into steel.
John Zhang Not true
@@Dudejpeg how so?
If someone like Mao could ever be revered, then that means that there's something seriously wrong with the way we look at history.
Monsters like him have to be remembered for what they truly were.
WarriorofLight Mao was a hero
Xi Jin Ping tho
Tell that to genghis Khan worshippers online
@@lucyadam9128 Who? He wasn’t a “good” or “moral” with our MODERN standards but for the time they did pretty regular stuff like slaughtering people sacking villages and cities and that’s all. He still wasn’t a good person though, it’s just our modern morals make people from 700 years ago look worse then they were for the time period.
如果说毛泽东是怪物。那么以美国为首的联合国军入侵朝鲜和越南就是不折不扣的地狱怪兽😢，然而这么庞大的怪兽，全世界没有一个国家敢阻拦，只有中国不仅做到了，而且把这只怪兽给打的谈判😂😂😂😂😂
Mao Zedong. A leader who enjoyed both growing his country as well as causing both pain, suffering, and starvation.
This artstyle is really cute relative to the subject at hand.
The channel in general uses fun cartoons to talk about dark or scary things.
Too much imo
@puffy toons It's good to ignore dark realities with jokes otherwise they will give you Trauma.
Probably the man with highest K/D
70 million kills and 1 death id say uh 69,420,666/1 K/D ratio?
KY1ELITE I get it’s a joke but anything divided by 1 is just itself
Genghis Khan : I am the worst dictator
Mao Zedong :
Mao Zedong: Hold my hammer and sickle
Genghis khan wasn't a dictator
Gnkhan is a
Emperor
@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme do you even know what dictator means ? Dictator is a person who behaves in an autocratic way, not someone who commits genocide
@Kyllyan Fritz-Yoen Ateme LOL you should learn that it’s not because someone DID something or is bad that he is a dictator, and the genocides isn’t an argument. Anyway the OTAN membres have financed as much genocides and it’s democracy, you need to see all the little distinctions to understand history
Me: *watches the video*
My social credit score: gone, reduced to atoms
who cares about social credit when you can peacefully live in any other country outside china
I'm so thankful to live in a day and age when I can absorb meaningful knowledge from educational cartoons instead of having to read books. Thank you, RUclips!
You mean thank you the people who make such great videos
Yes, them too!
Yeah, cause "to read too many books is harmful"
I think that whoever said that “to read too many books is harmful” is completely wrong. We can agree on that!
RUclips teaches me more than school
I can teach you even more!
@Uncle Sam's You are exactly right! +100 Social Credit. Next compliment you make about me and the CCP and I will give you a free Ferrari!
@WageSlaving2TheTop ! life expectancy doubled because of western scientists and food (vaccines, better/more food)
@@insanowsky My brain hurts reading those propagandist comments that apparently don't even consider such a simple and obvious counterpoint
What you see on youtube is what it really be？lol.
My grandfather was suffered at that dark time, his parents died very early, leaving him and hisyounger brother, when he was eight, our village ''has to pull down one house'' to fight against capitalism, no one wants their house to be the chosen one, so they pull down my grandfather's. Every time I think about this, I feel a lot sorry for him.
赵嘉成 take the L
@@ethansstuff2988 show some empathy.
You feel sorry for him but you chinese still have strong patriotism to the CCP
@@aweslayne you cant blame a starving man for his diet's too unhealthy, Chinese life quality is way better than before,life's way better than yesterday , so there are less complain. I dont mean our society dosnt have problems, its just econamical growth is far more attractive.
兄弟，节哀
Mao Zedong might have been a horrible person, but Red Sun in the Sky is still a banger.
thats only ur opinion
the song is basically "you know you know"
毛泽东再坏，他有美帝国主义坏吗，但是毛泽东打倒了美帝国主义，毛泽东吓到了苏联，以一己之力抗衡两个超级大国，你见过这么坏的人吗。好像只有他了吧😂😂😂😂
8:34 imagine hundreds of thousands being sent to *DANK* jail cells
(☭ ͜ʖ ☭)
So Dank memes all started in china!?&?!?
“The history was written by the victors”
But the truth will be reveal in some day.....
Or never.....
depend whst?the fake news and low magazine？
@@nicolaeceausescu2434 everything’s a propaganda for you people
@@madhusudhanancpcp7117 well, your existence is greatest lie.
The fact that so many people are willing to fight as soldiers for these tyrants actually terrifies me.
At nearly 40 years of age, I've come to the conclusion that 90% of the population are mindless drones, incapable of independent thought.
@@bossrabbit I'm 19 but not sure about it being 90%.
@@bossrabbit You just insulted my intelligence, now I'm really mad!
@@bossrabbit Remember that line "A person, is rational, thoughtful. People are irrational and thoughtless." (or something like that)
Men*
- 10000000 social credit
🤓
Xi JinPing: Hold my Pooh.
Are you challenging me?
@@notapokemonfan4223 Who dares challenge the brave hero of the CCP?
anyone else starting to get at least 3-4 add breaks every infographic show around 10-15 mins in length? its ridiculous!
Install AdBlocker. It's free.
I think the point is that their getting a little bit greedy
Carson Burke greedy? Let them earn a living Jesus. Don’t go full Moa x
Try the Brave browser.
And to believe many people still regard him highly
Stalin: Your country is going through a famine.
Mao(slaps Stalin): baka! Stalin-kun my country is not going through a famine (belly trembles).
I hate this
_+1 like_
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"... where's the lie though?
"I didn't like my aunt until now."💀
No eating aunt olaf
😂😂😂😂😂
June 4th 1989,
Nothing happened.
Nice spelling
@@jacobdavis5518 Grammar ccp
Come on man. Obviously nothing
Compared what they did before .89 is just a tiny thing.
That’s not right, in July 4th 1989, [this section of the comment was taken down by the CCP]. Don’t [this section of the comment was taken down by the CCP].
Mao should not be idolized in the slightest, but new generations do just this. It's honestly pathetic.
Infographics- "Is history doomed to repeat itself? We doubt it"
Humanity- "Hold my freedoms"
You must not be paying attention lol
For some reason i feel like Infographics writers are Mao apologists.
What are you referring too?
The Second Amendment was created for this reason.
Agree
Agreed.
exactly
@Reece A Banning religions that you don't like, huh... Where have I heard that before?
Congratulations on being as bad as an Islamist!
@Reece A Not to mention constitutions are supposed to restrict the power of government, not expand it.
Furthermore it would be a violation freedom of religion/freedom of expression, thus breaking the first amendment.
What I learned is that Mao had his army do little to fight off the Japanese compared to the Nationalists, who were left to do the heavy lifting. This was a calculated move by Mao to ensure that they would be weak after the fall of Japan and easy to defeat.
martinishot you are so right on the money there!!! The Nationalists were the heros of WW2 not the Reds.