Mao Zedong (Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung Simplified Chinese 毛泽东 Traditional Chinese 毛澤東), known also as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese Communist dictator, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and military leader who founded the "People's" Republic of China through his victory in the Chinese Civil War, unifying the country for the first time since the Qing Dynasty fell in 1911. As Mao sought to tear down the Communist Party he had built, he managed to savage Chinese society, to obliterate its culture, to turn student against teacher, friend against friend, children against parents, all in a frenzy of political hysteria and denunciations. And 30 years ago, fighting for his political life, he issued a stream of exhortations that led China into the Cultural Revolution - 10 years of madness, forced labor, exile, countless suicides and millions of killings. More than 50 million people starved to death in the vast famine he visited on his country in 19. “ ”Perhaps no man is responsible for as many deaths in this century as Mao.
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