Why are you bringing this up? What is the point of this?
The Republic of China in my opinion though was worse than Maoist China, but that is not saying anything to Mao's credit.
The Republic of China had rampant famines every year, Mao only had one major one his whole reign.
Reading Mao's journals, before he became a dictator, the cities were plagued with slumlords, warlords, and a huge portion of the population (including kids) were addicted to opium.
The rural countryside was a horrid place of mass disease and grinding poverty.
Mao's China at least reversed most, not all, but most of the worst elements of Chiang's Republic. Of course, he then ruled China with an iron fist so that part makes Mao's China a mixed bag.
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mavrick721
13 years ago
I'm guessing roycan't07 is from mainland China, because Mao's *beep* level to his own people is pretty much on Stalin's level.
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nogard64
13 years ago
I hate people who try to change history, you can not deny the fact China under mao was incredibly backwards. Millions died under his atrocious rule.
Meanwhile in Taiwan it prospered and flourished rather quickly! China has reached the level of advancement that Taiwan had started in the 1960s! so yeah 2011 China is only equivalent to 1960 Taiwan, China still has a lot of catching up to do.
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chi_hien
13 years ago
"so yeah 2011 China is only equivalent to 1960 Taiwan, China still has a lot of catching up to do."
im dying of laughter here. you are so deluded its unbelievable. at a time when china is sending man to space, building infrastructure like crazy, lifting millions more out of poverty every year, dont even try to talk down china's achievements.
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Storm_Thunder_Infantry
13 years ago
at a time when china is sending man to space,
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Sending a man into space has little to nothing to do with a country's politics or anything else - only technology.
Do note that China's space program wouldn't have even existed had it not been for the Soviets, who practically introduced the technology to them before relations soured off.
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lifting millions more out of poverty every year
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That doesn't change the fact that many people in China are still poor (especially in the rural areas), yet alone even comparable to the average Taiwanese standard-of-living.
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Storm_Thunder_Infantry
13 years ago
dont even try to talk down china's achievements.
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China's more notable achievements didn't come about until the late 1970s, which by then Mao had already popped his clogs.
To make his statement more accurate, 2011 China's economic growth development since the late 70s is equivalent to Taiwan's economic growth development during the 60s to the 80s (and possibly, the 90s).
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