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Originally Posted by elphenor
China was kinda in a state of being ran over militarily and economically dominated prior to Mao
it would be like if one of the native tribe leaders decided they were gonna start making muskets instead of growing maize
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So imperialism justifies mass murder of your own population.
There was another country that started out under the imperial thumb of another superpower....
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
China had 2000 years of frequent famines and starvation before Mao.
Now they have a food surplus.
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Wow, a food surplus you say, that would be impressive like 200 years ago.
And I always hear people saying famines happened before... Which is true in both Russia and China... But 1) these famines were artificially inflated by state policy and 2) I don't think it was at all common for famines on that scale to happen. If I'm wrong about that then correct me.