My grandpa served in the Soviet army, they’d tell them on the news “the United States stands on the edge of a great chasm” and they’d joke and say “They should come down here and say hi to us”
Khmer Rouge: *Bullies Vietnam, their own wartime ally and supplier, just because they were butthurt by them in the past, despite Vietnam being much more powerful* Yeah, the Khmer Rouge was just one huge OOF after another.
China supplied the Khmer Rouge with weapons during their disastrous four year experiment in social engineering. They borrowed radical ideas, even using the same jargon of trying to achieve "A Great Leap Forward" or "Maha Lout Ploh" by moving the entire urban population to the countryside. Mao admitted to the Khmer Rouge leadership that even he could never have gone to such extremes.
My parents, who survived this period, had just one thing to say about the Great Leap Forward: "everyone who survived knows at least a handful who starved to death."
@@Olav3D Nostalgia is a powerful force. As time passes, people tend to forget the disasters and only remember the good times. It's the same reason phrases like "make America great again" work; they feed off that nostalgia of how "everything was better back in the day."
It affected genes on the short term too I think. My grandma was carrying my mom like right after the famine and I only grew to be about 1.65m; while my mom's older sister was born before the famine and her son is like 1.85m 🤔
My grandma was a primary school teacher and had to watch her students starve to death. My parents weren’t born until 1964-5 but grew up hungry. My uncle has a scar on his head because all the brothers were fighting over one bowl of plain congee
@@choppergunner8650 No way any sane person would have thought it would. They tried collectivization earlier with failure, then the greatly expand it. They also had collectivization failing in the USSR 20 years earlier as an example.
I feel for you! Nothing less than Soviet modernization efforts back in 1930’s! My grandgrand parents were sent to Gulag and some got shot. But things got better and then our southern neighbors got out of their civil war but followed by this tragic great leap backwards thing.
My grandma survived the starvation. She's from Gan Su province where the starvation was the worst in the entire mainland. She told me that the village she used to live once had two people found dead at the entrance of the village. They looked like a middle age couple. The patrols were sent to deal with the situation. They later noticed that there are flesh pieces missing on the man's lap. And the matching pieces are found in the woman's mouth. The villagers didn't know this couple. They assumed these two escaped from other places. Weeks later, my great grandma told my grandma to not leave the house. Because They heard rumor that some people escaped from other villages killed weak people and ate them. And turns out it wasn't a rumor.
My grandparents moved to a remote grassland in inner mogolia, just before the great leap forward began, to escape the diseaster. Fortunately, no one in my family suffered from starvation. In contrast, death by starvation is very common in rural and city area at that time.
What I learned from history is that if a plan has the word "great" in it, then it's definitely not great. And if a country has the word "Democratic" in its name, then it's far from being democratic.
Mao's basically Asian Parent and Chinese people is the children who gets pressured to meet parents expectation, and the Soviet was that neighbor kids that were often being used as object of comparison "Why can't you be like him" sort of things
And hundreds of millions of children before and after birth BY trying. This is always glossed over, due to the west's current nonchalant take on abortion, but these were FORCED abortions and infant murder by the hundreds of millions over a few decades. S
It worked In the summer of 1958 but mao wanted higher quotas and that force the commune managers to fudge the numbers and some times the grain that was taken as a tax was the only grain that was available for the workers in the communes They also shot and killed sparrows that lead to bugs that killed more crops than the birds killed
Yep, Mao Zedong is trash. The one who isn’t though is successor Deng Xiaoping, he’s the one whom Chinese should really praise because he brought up a no-longer-isolated China alongside a capitalistic Chinese economy. In case nobody agrees with me, just look at China today... 🇨🇳
It's always the same old story with these guys that believe they are the smartest guy in the room. Surround yourself with sycophants that tell you what you want to hear, and then wait for everything to come crashing down. You see it in almost every autocratic regime.
Kind of sad too that they don't realise when those same sycophants get the right opportunity they will turncoat on them or wait till their dead and change things with excessive haste. Always pays to be for you to be the moderator of your ambitions so others don't have to do it for you.
@Hani Jawabrah "Luck", or "convergence of multiple determinist factors that you have little hold on", however you phrase it, depending on your philosophy. The point is, it's really unpredictable, but they're not that different from you and me.
I remember from my grandfather's account ,that when he had fought in the 1962 sino indian war. A group of Chinese PLA soldiers once crossed the line and defected to the indian side . Their faces were filled with fear and many of them were shouting anti maoist slogans . They were filled with joy when the soldiers decided to keep them and offer them protection. They even picked up guns against thier own army.
@@cameronpatterson130 Usually peacetime right after a great war does lead to a baby boom and higher life expectancy. China was in a constant warring state since the start of the Warlords Era in 1916, leading to the Central Plains War, to the devastating Sino-Japanese War, and finally the Civil War which ended in 1949.
@@magtagnobgabrielc.3307 How is adopting an ideology created by westerners, and then using it to murdering millions of your own country men is saving it from westerners?
@@Nathan-jh1ho Experience in the Korean War seemed to indicate that the PLA was effective at getting there the fastest with the mostest. I think saying that his organization was only good at guerilla tactics not only undervalues the importance of guerilla tactics in modern war, but does a disservice to the variant of deep battle style force concentration employed against ROC and UN forces. Leaving the ROC to do most of the fighting against the Japanese among other things was a major dick move, and I'll certainly not defend his political program, but comparing the PLA of the 40s and 50s to contemporary Chinese and east Asian militaries, the competition looks like crap.
~3:15-3:24 There actually was evidence of Lysenko's methods being effective; the issue was that this evidence came from experimental conditions which didn't reflect Chinese fields. Deep planting is effective if you have deep enough soil, but Chinese fields mostly had shallow soil on top of a sandy layer, so deep planting didn't work at all for them. Planting crops closer together also worked fine in Soviet experiments, but all the seeds used in the experiments were closely related, and therefore didn't compete with each other in the same way the more distantly related plants placed alongside each other on large fields did. Basically, it was an issue of assuming lab conditions reflected universal ones.
@@godvonheaven2968 Pointing out that Lysenko's methods seemed to work in lab conditions despite not actually working in real-world conditions is not a defense of those methods lol
@@csil2863 Yup, can't wait for immense rolling blackouts and brownouts after all the gas, oil and coal plants are gone, since the greens don't seem too keen on fission.
The backyard furnaces didn't just destroy scrap metal. In the heavily underdeveloped countryside, the poor peasants were forced to throw in ALL their metal tools and pots, further reducing what material wealth they have and exacerbating the famine. source: my grandma
Excellent, lucid presentation of one of the Worst calamities in human history arising from the relentless pursuit of one Man. How much incredible suffering the Chinese people endured...
A friend of mines parents survived it. They said that it would be small rations of rice per day, along with around 1 gallon of water for a small family.
My grandma and my father barely survived the great famine, "thanks" to live in a coastal town. My grandma have to beg the young PLA soldiers to let her cross the fence, so she can go collect some seaweed. The in‐land provinces had the worse and cannibalism was common.
*So do you leap forward?* China : Yeah *At what cost?* China : tens of millions of people, anyway check out my new factory! Also my people make too many kids anyway so I'll limit them to one per couple, it's not going to bit my ass in the future so everything's set! *Yeah about that* 😂
Yeah all these end products (suppose to be great quanity of iron and steel surpass the production from Britain and USA) all ended up in 450,000 tons of totally useless good for nothing pig iron.
It was something like 30 million dead from famine at the end. The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu is a great way to understand the experiences of the people who lived through it. And yes there's cannibalism.
What a complete shitshow, like pretty much every initiative introduced by Mao. How he managed to cling to power until his death I'll never understand; the guy was a block-headed blunderer and a total rotter. He made Khrushchev seem like a skillful political operator.
From a 90% agricultural economy to overtaking the United Kingdom in Steel production in 15 years... Today, China produces more than 50% of the world's steel. Crazy.
@@shatterquartz Of course it isn't "Real" Capitalism just like china doesn't practice "Real" Communism. It's obvious how I mean that the state gave individuals more freedom to decide their own future. And through that freedom came prosperity. It's hilarious how your trying to slant advocates for Capitalism/Freedom
@@1funnygame I mean, China is capable of producing this wealth on its own through its unique models, western capitalist nations are fully reliant on extorting the global south to generate wealth.
@@shizachan8421 The CCP is incompetent. Before the US started moving its industry to China the CCP were barely capable of feeding the people still alive after the "great leap forward" mass starvation. While their propaganda says they have a "unique model" it's their coping mechanism to overcome the fact that they only started prospering once the CCP had less control over society, and allowed foreigners to work with the Chinese people to claw their way into prosperity in their free economic zones. So that some of them could enjoy the prosperity which other Chinese people were already enjoying in Hong Kong and Taiwan outside the CCP control. The Chinese people are capable of many great things, but China has no future since the CCP murdered millions of children and left their country with an inverted population pyramid. Your other communist nonsense about exploiting the global south while every metric shows greater prosperity barely deserves a response.
@@lunchpin403 it is true. The point isn't that Maoist China didn't achieve anything but all achievements it made in health, industry and education could have been done without killing loads of people by forcing them to make scrap iron in their backyards instead of food.
This was a good documentary but I feel like the editors' could've chosen better music mid-way through Narrator: Children were separated from their parents and people were forced to live in communes, being told to farm and make iron with no prior skill Music: :)
Churchill: 3 million deaths in only ONE year, in a SINGLE Province of Bengal, India, is not that bad, eh? Also, don't forget we created the first concentration camp.
Depends what you mean by scientists. In the US, the first name that comes to mind is Fauci. He is first and foremost a politician. Nobody should listen to a word this hack says. Ever. And not just because it will change in a week.
@Nikita Khrushchev Никита Хрущев Not exactly, he is controversial only for some of his economic policies. Else, he is still elevated as the great founder of prc and the Unifier of China and so on
That happens everywhere. Here in America we have an ascendant nationalist, clown fascist movement consisting of people whose grandfathers were proud to combat the same thing back in the day 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️. What a world.
Its very funny for you to make such a claim so far fetched from reality as I am Chinese, and I can confirm you are totally wrong. You know very little about the country other than from the lens of sensational news. :)
Mao's realization of the Chinese Industrialization would succeed, not by his unscientific model, but via a hybrid capitalistic socialist model created by Deng instead.
Because unlike the Soviet Union, Deng saw how capitalism turned the US into the power factory machine that won the Allies WWII. Say what you want about capitalism and its flaws, but Deng knew without a doubt that China would not be able to survive economically if it stuck with Mao's communist economic ideas, which were base on Stalin's economic views.
@@mso2013 By the end of the war, all of the Allies except for the US and Russia were bankrupted. Britain was on the verge of collapsing, France was just economically broken, and so on. The US was the only Allied nation that manage to stay afloat despite the amounts of loans it booked in order to be the "Arsenal of Democracy". Russia didn't have to worry its economy because communism doesn't believe in economy in terms of monetary value (of course later on this will eventually bite Russia in the ass).
@@WatcherMovie008 maybe you misunderstood what i said, every nation apart from the CCCP was capitalist in ww2. the CCCP was still partly capitalist until the colapse. Edit: and why do you keep talkin about a nation that died with the monarch and came back as a fedration in the colapse?
@@WatcherMovie008 in a way, Deng was very dialectical and very Marxist in his policies. You can't build socialism without going through capitalism before. Still, I'm happy to live in the "free" world, I'm happy to be allowed to say how wrong capitalism can be. The main mistake of every communist regime was being a regime.
Hey Cold War, if you are reading this, PLEASE do a video about Deng Xiao Ping and how he transformed China away from Maoism and arguably away from communism. I really enjoy watching all your videos and I really look forward to it, since you can't find much info about Deng Xiao Ping and economic reform. Thanks!
Did they seriously think that backyard furnaces with melted down scrap iron would seriously contribute to steel exports? That's ridiculous. Thank you for another interesting dive into history! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
i laughed way to hard at that, kill bird, bird is gone, import bird from Russia? haha Genius!! this is the kind of thing i expect from a comedy movie not from relaity
Kinda surprised of the mention of backyard furnaces as that is one the more interesting things in this whole mess. Although I should point out that these backyard furnaces would only smelt iron as these primarily used wood to burn (24/7) they would not be hot enough to process it into steel. Even if iron was somehow good enough quality. Rusty nails don't make good material for smelting (or shovels, hairclips, scissors etc). Although I should add that after the furnaces were put out comission, chinese would still focus on quantity over quality when it came steel production and so during various wars in 1960-1990s chinese armored vehicles would gain reputation being build from "pig iron" (not that it was actually build from it).
You know Mao is revered and fiercely defended by a majority of native Chinese peoples from my experience. Not from several dozen million families of those he knocked off mind.
And you know, Russians voted Stalin as the greatest person of all nations in all history in a national poll conducted just a couple years ago. I'm serious. Is there some sort of blind spot? Surely due to the quiet, insidious whitewashing of history inside the relevant countries to try and salvage some sort of national pride or hide historical embarrassment. The majority of the planet sees them as despotic murderous dictators plowing aside anything and anyone in their path. Heroes in their own nations. Two sides to a coin I suppose.
@@pgr3290 No blindspot, just results. Mao and Stalin's "greatness" are results of insidious propaganda, cults of personality, and damn luck. For Stalin, the success of the 3rd Five-Year Plan, victory over Germany in WW2, the (near) restoration of Russian Empire borders and superpower status heralded a "golden age" for Russia that contrasts harshly with the reality of today. Also Putin styles himself after Stalin so there is a political bent to his popularity. For Mao, the Cultural Revolution defined his posthumous legacy. For most of the people, he is a god and the CCP find it difficult to discredit Mao without discrediting itself in the process. Hence the birth of the "30% bad" narrative. Even Mao's popularity is political with Xi removing Deng era criticisms of him from textbooks...
this is all about capitalist propaganda, you have a lot of books debunking what this video says, and other myths that are famous in the western hemisphere. People will say that they (Chinese and Russian) suffer from propaganda, but who say that is the one that is brainwashed by Western propaganda. Both Khrushchev and Deng campaigned severely against the image of Stalin and Mao, consecutively. Both maximized the estimates of "deaths caused by the leaders" and harassed their loyal followers. Khrushchev punished the Stalinists of the Party and Deng Xiaoping pursued and killed Maoists in China. Chineses today don't see Mao as a "god" (some 10% of the Chinese does), they surely condemn Mao for some actions, like the Great Leap Forward, the personality cult and the Cultural Revolution. Only 12% of the Chinese doesn't like Mao.
@@hominideoconsciente5523 'A lot of books'. History might be written in many books by many people with many biases, but the damning truth of the barbarity is frequently revealed by successors in the states themselves. Privy to wider information. Stalin for example was attacked by Khrushchev and then when the USSR fell, ENORMOUS quantities of records and files were released and sifted through by 'capitalist' and nationalist historians that very much matched the expectation of witness and survivor accounts. We cannot be revisionists and deniers in the light of such hard evidence.
@@pgr3290 well, these documents that were revealed in 1991 demonstrate, for example, that Stalin "killed" fewer than 4 million people, in contrast to what Western historians say, about up to 50 million deaths.
My grandfathers were a professor a businessman. They tried to tell the communist government what's wrong with their policies, but it landed them in a political prison for well over ten years, where they saw tens of millions starved to death, and then the cultural revolution destroyed even more lives. In comparison, the hunger and labor camp that my parents endured are nothing special. It is said Mao is the only person in China who grew fat while everyone else were starving.
@@GoodBaleadaMusic The 1920s were as period of rapid growth for China. Until Japan invaded. The first 30 years of communist rule were really really diastertrous for China. It only ended when Mao died.
@@xiphoid2011your society and country for the last 70 have been the most genocidal and evil human history. The United States has destroyed hundreds of countries and killed tens of millions of people for capitalism. China had to convert from being a colonized victim of the United States into the beautiful project of success it is today. You people are crying about agricultural famine while speaking a language that destroyed 10,000 cultures and continues to destroy hundreds of cultures every year killing millions of people every year. On purpose because it wants to. Your meter for what is evil and what is not is broken and that is why I scream death to America every morning.
@@xiphoid2011 and then what? You fled to the heartland of white supremacy so you could live off exploited African children on stolen native land and scream across the ocean? If you're stupid landlord grandparents were so enamored with capitalism. Why didn't they move to Honduras? Why didn't they move to Africa? Why do you get to sit here speaking English on stolen land using a currency that cannot survive without African children living in poverty and chaos pretending you are living some sort of higher moral life? Have you ever made a land acknowledgment?
This thing is now happening in Europe. Our leaders have been bought by the WEF and are now confiscating farm in the name of nitrogen reduction. The reality is that hunger is a powerful weapon.
As a Chinese, I want to express my greatest thanks to you for your efforts to tell the truth even at the risk of being targeted by the CCP. The Great Lead Forward was the most disastrous event in 20th century. It's trauma has never healed but only suppressed by the subsequent Cultural Revolution and brainwashing state control media and education system all along. "Great Lead Forward didn't acctually happened.", "It's not Mao's fault but the lower officials who conducted the faults.", "It's caused by the foreign power forcing the country to repay its debt." The most common mentality the ordinary Chinese people try to rationalize this event is quite absurd but play an essential role in the CCP's legitimacy in people's minds. I hope one day the entire world could wake up and make the real history knowledge an necessary part for people from totalitarianism country to get a VISA to any democracy country as tourism, studying or immigrantion. Chinese people are execllent at learning if exams are required. And the faster the world takes actions, the less the world as well as the Chinese people will suffer.
Thank you for these videos, I took 2 years of elective world history in high school and yet no one ever discussed communism in depth. Years later as an adult, I started learning about these regimes and was sickened to my stomach about some of the things I saw on the few documentaries I saw. I am not surprised at how Americans have been hypnotized by the allure of an authoritarian style of government that meets all of your needs: our schools suck.
I thought the same thing. The death till was nearly all of WWII combined and the destruction of property was worse, but there's barely a mention in history books. It's arguably the worst event in human history. Why not teach it?
You know what's Xi's problem? He grew up in this period. China is at a crucial moment right now. On one hand, it becomes stronger and stronger and becomes a powerhouse which is challenging/alerting the US and the current world order. On the other hand, I feel that Xi and this generation, which were grown up and educated by Mao's extremism could do something similar to Mao, with more proper means.
The great leap forward is once again like all times proves that central planning and control of all means of production by the state without any consideration to individual liberty is bound to fall again, again and again.. People don't learn ig
I really like these videos. I'd love to have some context for the old films playing under the narration though. Some of those in this video seemed like some kind of collective punishment of dissident farm workers by their comrades. Be nice to know what was going on there.
Mao is like that poor mom that is in the rich moms club and eager to prove that she too is rich, refused to buy any food for her children as they die one by one just to buy that luis-vitton bag
Mao: All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters must be subject to criticism; in no circumstances should they be allowed to spread unchecked. March 12 1957
@Field Marshall Rommel then every person who starved to death outside communist regimes in 20th century was killed by Capitalism? Boy, Capitalism sure won the "More people starving to death game" in Africa alone.
@@user-ue4nq3kc3j Lol no. Communists killed everyone in Africa. Communists have this sort of fetish with mass killings. Thanks to communists, a lot of wealthy and powerful countries turned into crapholes, i.e.: Katanga, Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, SA, etc.
It's definitely nothing that Marx, whatever one thinks of his ideas, would recognize as communism. He was adamant that communism can only be achieved once capitalism has been allowed to run its course. Communist revolution in a non-industrialized country would be an absurdity to him.
Now China's annual steel production > rest of the world combined. The unreported amount by Tangshan city of hebei province = entire Germany's production.
My grandpa was a hardcore maoist in Canada, he's not anymore but I feel it still left a mark on him to this day as he say Chiang Kai-Shek was worst then Mao. Still love you grandpa but I just don't understand how you came to that conclusion, the numbers speak for themselves.
Kai-Shek was worse than Mao, definitely, and the numbers back it up. Though comparing the two is sort of useless because both were incredibly bad. It's like how Stalin was better than Nicholas II.
"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics." General Barrow, USMC. If Mao wanted to use his people to increase steel production, he should have realized that he had to feed them.
The Great Leap Forward was a failed trial/copy of the successful industrialization of Soviet Union in 1930s which used the capital and technologies from the west and took advantage of Great Depression.
I am a Chinese from henan province, one of the worst-hit areas in the country. Point out a few mistakes:1.The disaster was not intentional, but a series of political mistakes, such as diverting too much Labour to steelmaking and neglecting agricultural production.2.It's quite have a lot of people did die in the famine, but the number was somewhere between three and six million. Anything over 10 million people is an expansion. In our village annals, two people were killed by poisoning after eating seeds containing pesticide.3.Instead of indulging the disaster, the government took an active part in assisting the victims, and many government officials also died in the famine.
Don't try to convince the channel owner of what you said, this video is more about capitalist propaganda than about history. They don't even mentioned the Sino-Soviet split that pulled Soviet agricultural scientists out of China, and also that made USSR stop aiding China in the worst years.
@Field Marshall RommelI can't tell you exactly which village I'm in, but I can tell you that I live in Shilihe Town, Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province（我不能告诉你我具体在哪个村子，但我可以告诉你我住在 河南省郑州市管城回族区十八里河镇）Then the death figures I give are estimated by Chinese scholars according to the death figures recorded in the annals of each village. I have also looked at the death statistics of the villages near me. Most of the villages have no more than ten deaths. In one remote village, a total of 12 people died from starvation and eating the pesticide-laced seeds. There are nearly 700,000 villages in China. If 10 people died in each village, it would be less than 7 million. It is recorded in the village annals that only the area affected by this famine is larger than the famine of 1942, and the magnitude of the famine is less than that of 1942, so the figure of 6 million is reasonable.
@Field Marshall Rommel Of course, you can continue to insist on the 10 million number. Indeed, some our scholars also have reported this number. But that figure and all figures above 10 million are based on birth rates and do not take into account the reduced desire to have children in times of famine. And when you talk about cyber surveillance, we do have cyber surveillance in our country. But the focus is on cult sites, scams and pornography, as well as operators of illegal VPNs. Our country is not monitoring everyone, because there are nearly 100 million people just using VPNs to access external networks, and the government does not have the capacity. As far as the network is concerned, people outside the network will not be guilty of speech, because the communication outside the network does not spread as fast as the Internet and has little influence on the government, so the government does not monitor the speech outside the network.
@Field Marshall Rommel If local figures are unreliable, Western media claims of tens of millions of deaths are even less trustworthy. Besides, the people who lived through the famine had not all died, and their memories could not be discredited. If you don't trust me, come to China and ask the people who have been through these disasters. As for porn, you're advised to stay away. It's harmful for your health。
This video has made me view the Chinese communes with an even lower view. Not only did they not work, but they contributed to one of, if not the largest famine in history, but they also had policy of separating parents from each other as well as their children - which shows that no matter how evil something is, it can always be worse.
separating family, funny thing, is actually what the modern far-left advocates for by the destruction of the nuclear family. BLM the Marxist organization advocated for it before quietly erasing it from their objectives due to the perceived backlash.
@@anyanyanyanyanyany3551 And please explain how and where BLM advocated for splitting families up. And secondly BLM isn't an organisation. It's a movement.
@@FirstNameLastName-tg3rc I'm referring to BLM the organization, not the movement. Don't conflate between the two. They are different. The movement may have different goals to the organization and vice versa. As for the dismantling of the nuclear family, BLM the organization had it up I their website, but they soon took it down. I'll try to look for any archived versions of the website, but if you search for it, there are quite a few media reports online. I'm not surprised if you didn't know any of this because much of the mainstream media have been clamping down on any negative criticisms of BLM, both the organization and movement.
In a theoretical society having children and their biological parents separated could definitely be a good thing, but that would require tons of social change. Having it forced on people like in the GLF was definitely a not good.
China had plenty of competent people since, all the right people, but unfortunately also had Mao... He delayed China's development so much! Not only he didn't knew what he was doing, his craziness and ego also paralyzed everyone around him with fear. The ones that he didn't attacked couldn't do what they could for fear of being attacked by him. Once he died the country moved fast, imagine if China had started this fast development 20 years earlier? What a waste.
Imagine if Deng Xiao Ping were the first Chairman and have had made the NEP (New Economic Policy) as soon as possible? China would be way richer than it is today.
@@andred7684 With less "psychologically damaged" people and loss of Culture. Mao was a good example of "bad vases never break" (probably doesn't work well in translation). Not that he didn't had his place in story, but no one believed in the myth more than himself, and he didn't knew how to use the power of that myth to anything good. If he had just stayed in the sidelines to unite the nation... I didn't want to lament the past just to suffer, but the future with Xi isn't promising to be better (in different ways).
@@deathdoor I don't think Xi's era's going to work as bad as Mao's but I doubt it'll be up to Deng's era. Now Regarding Mao, you're right he let power go up his head that he couldn't realize what he's done wrong, so you're right on the "Vaso Ruim não quebra"
This was a result of ideological goals trumping practical ones. Mao made all of the same mistakes with "The great leap forward" that Stalin did with his "5 year plans".
@@42thecakeisalie You do have to remember that it took until the THIRD Five-Year Plan for those favorable results, and that needed foreign assistance to work properly. Ford and GM provided the Soviets with the technical, industrial, and architectural know-how that allowed the industrialization to succeed. Look up on 1930's Gaz and Zis vehicles and compare the to American cars of the same era...
