Comment on Putin too, for some reason
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 hour agoAlso, Mao wasn’t actually in power in 1989…
…a leaders “murdering” really has to be once they’re in power…and a lot of the murdering Mao did was due to unintended agricultural famines (made harder to correct as farmers and teachers had been attacked by the red guard student movement, and the USSR had sent a conman over to advise them on crops, killing all the sparrows certainly didn’t help either).
After the Chinese civil war there was an internal political war for who runs the Red Guard student radicals. Mao lost that one, and thus began the Chinese tradition of sequestering leaders… After Tianamen Square Zhao Ziyang was sequestered to his retirement home for trying to speak up for Student Demonstrators.
mattyroses@lemmy.librarysocialism.social 14 minutes ago
The famines preceeded the cultural revolution, and thus the student guard, by a very long time.
In fact, a good argument is that Mao was sidelined after the debacle of the famine, and the Cultural Revolution was him doing a low level insurgency to regain power.