On Boxing Day, December 26, a Chinese state-backed media outlet celebrated the birth of communist dictator and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.
“Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader [Mao Zedong],” tweeted Global Times.
Let’s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader #MaoZedong. pic.twitter.com/LNOwkTHr5r
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 26, 2021
Also known as Chairman Mao, the communist revolutionary was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1976.
The PRC was founded on October 1, 1949, becoming a single-party state controlled with an iron fist by the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has ruled ever since.
Setting aside the other unmentionable moral crimes of the CCP since its inception — including the “One Child Policy,” which resulted in 35 years of countless forced abortions, sterilizations, and the abandonment of babies, as well as the ongoing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province — the “Great Leap Forward” alone marks Mao as the most prolific mass murder in history.
In 2016, historian Frank Dikötter discussed the “appalling truth about Chairman Mao’s genocidal rule” in an article titled, “Looking back on the Great Leap Forward”:
Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them. In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party’s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.
A catastrophe of gargantuan proportions ensued. Extrapolating from published population statistics, historians have speculated that tens of millions of people died of starvation. But the true dimensions of what happened are only now coming to light thanks to the meticulous reports the party itself compiled during the famine….
What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later. The case of Wang Ziyou was reported to the central leadership: one of his ears was chopped off, his legs were tied with iron wire, a ten kilogram stone was dropped on his back and then he was branded with a sizzling tool – punishment for digging up a potato.
But let’s recall a warm and powerful smile, on Twitter.
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