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To: RealMuLan who wrote (83558)	8/20/2008 9:42:01 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) of 116555

Real, I'm almost done with this tome (huge book) on Mao written by Jung Chang and John Halladay. I highly recommend it to anyone who has lived in China or is from there, as it really dispells some of the myths they propogate to this day in China about The Great Helmsman. I knew a bit about Mao, but this book documents Mao's life like none other before or since. The footnotes, names of interviewees, and sources are about 200-pages long alone. I always thought Stalin and Hitler were the worst, but I'm close to the opinion that Mao could actually be worse than both. All were sociopathic, but only Mao was willing to sacrifice 1/2 or 2/3rds of his population to further his own personal power and glory. He also had no preference for any life other than his own. He was also indiscriminate about killing, often giving numbers like 5% of the population needed to be killed and leaving the details up to the subordinates. Of note, Mao said he believed that he should only do unto others that which he would never want done to himself.

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