Mao Zedong: Difference between revisions

 

 

* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: "Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world, and a third could be lost. If it is a little higher it could be half ... I say that if the worst came to the worst and one-half dies, there will still be one-half left, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. After a few years there would be 2.7 billion people again"

** Note that historians still debate whether he was serious when he said this, or if it was just sabre-rattling (see Deadpan Snarker below)

** [[It Got Worse|Made even worse]] after you realize that, after Mao was made aware of the problem, he ''still'' decided to keep it going for several years.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: Mao wrote quite a few poems during the war against the Nationalists and Japan. The poems are generally considered to be of good literary quality. He was also a skilled calligrapher.

 

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