What a great documentary. My grandparents died from the famine caused by "Great leap forward". My father survived since he was studying in a normal school with the food supplied by the government. He always regretted that he cannot take care of his parents. But if he was staying with his parents, he would also die.
I hope you are safe and happy here in the US. US/ Chinese history needs to be taught in US schools. Chinese people greatly added to the formation and success of the US. The first transcontinental railroad was mostly built by Chinese. They figured if Chinese could build the great wall, they can build a railroad... and they did.
Chinese people are industrious hardworking people ruled by tyrants. Always has been since the first emperor 221 B.C, and still is under the boots of CCP. There is no escape of it. The history always repeats itself with every dynasty.@@TheBandit7613
@@TheBandit7613 Do you realize that was mostly the Western half of Transcontinental Railroad the Eastern half was mostly built by Freed Men and Irish immigrants? I might be missing a group here on the Eastern half and apologize. Also do you realize that they weren't all Chinese but were referred to at that time as Chinamen which just described anyone who had a certain look in America basically, so it could include people of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and even Korean ancestry. Most of the people who worked to build the transcontinental railroad were immigrants from China and Ireland. These immigrants faced discrimination in the U.S., but their labor made this national achievement possible.
I remember my Late father drumming it into my brother and myself , to eat all our food up, as Millions of people in China were starving , I never really appreciated why he said that , till now .
Just before US invaded and NATO countries invaded Libya, ppl where told how evil tge Libyan leader Gaddafi was. Now, we all know that was not true. Libya under Gaddafi was rich and prosperous. If you still believe in Western media, then there's no help for you.
@@marks7167 the demographics of china don't lie. there is a reason that the age group that relates to the years of famine is so much smaller than other age groups of china.
You mean every Chinese national should watch this. Because more Americans know about that period than the average Chinese people do. Because Chinese history has been heavily sanitized or outright erased in mainland China. This is why Mao is so revered, even though he hated Chinese culture and was indifferent to their suffering.
@@breveth you're giving the united states far too much credit. the major of our college educated the last 10-15 years at least are pushing for communisim to come here and they're getting louder. they have not taught our children about things like this in schools since the 1990s
@@breveth maybe you should re-read what I wrote. I didn't say it was coming. I said they are pushing for it...they want it to come, not that it is here.
Hitler was the byproduct of Prussian imperialism and its unchecked violence Stalin and Mao are characters who wanted to be emperors, who really believed they were superior to others, and whose ideas should not be wrong
But for some strange reason the Australian painter is the most evil person that ever lived. Not Stalin or Mao who killed millions and millions more people. Why is that? What the Austrian painter did fits an agenda. Make of it what you will. Take Care ❤
@@Niko-vh8pj If you read the source material it doesn't appear to have been deliberate on Stalin's part but the outcome of his collectivisation policy. Many Russians also died during the Holodomor not only Ukrainians, some of the worst famine-affected areas were outside the Ukrainian SSR.
My Fiancée is Chinese, and she told me her parents lived through that time. They were both haunted by what they saw and experienced until the day they died.
I’m 70. My former girlfriend was a teen when she was sent to a camp. Her father was an academic though didn’t face persecution. Oddly she remembered that time at camp as a pleasant experience. She was a city girl and it was so refreshing to breathe country air and experience nature and growing food. She might slip of to a nearby town with a friend to trade some produce for some buns. I’m not saying these weren’t harsh times for most. It shocks me that she had a positive experience. She gave me a collection of Mao pins her mother had saved. She remembered the propaganda songs. But one song she loved was a Chinese spoof of a Soviet patriotic song. All the words are Chinese and are NOT a translation of the Russian song. They were chosen for the way they sounded almost Russian. Literally it was a silly song about frogs in a pond or something like that. Sung so forcefully. Afterwards we would both laugh hard. Best wishes for you and your soon to be wife. Vote Blue, lol.
Glad this is available. This is a prime example of what misery can unfold when one leader consolidates all power amongst himself and his close followers. Fifty million deaths, unimaginable despair.
What about the Xi Jinping administration? I hear that he worships Mao Zedong. Oh, in communist China, where the society is monitored by camera AI, people can't express their true feelings
@@Kaz.Klay.common term here in Nigeria. Corruption thrives bcos of that too. USD-NGN exchange rate risen over 100% against the NGN in over the past 9months. People are hungry!!
If I was a high school history teacher I’d make all of my students watch. It’s such a masterclass in how politicians make lofty promises and mobilize the population against itself to consolidate power.
If it happens in recorded history,it must be shown or humanity will repeat it in a different incarnations,the communist will always fail in the end because that's how that system works,study their adjectives not the subject.
No you wouldn't. You wouldn't dare. Do you have any idea what would happen if they found out you were actually teaching history instead of making activists that hate men, white people, and america?
I lived in China for a few years. When I asked my Chinese teacher about the Tian'an Men Square revolt back in 1989, she asked me as in shock how I knew that.
I spent a year in China in the mid ‘90’s. My interpreter was an Electrical Engineer. He was at school when the Japanese invaded in the ‘30’s, was in the University during the Hundred Flowers movement. He was critical,of the party and was sent to the countryside to “learn from the peasants “. He survived the Great Leap Forward, but during the Cultural Revolution he was again purged, did self-criticisms, was beaten almost daily. As an electrical engineer, his job was to dig the holes for telegraph and power poles. When Deng Xiaoping came to power and declared “It is glorious to get rich” he was repatriate society and for the first time was allowed to teach and run a business. He was an English interpreter for many companies. We were walking around Tiananmen Square and Mao’s Mausoleum was open and I asked if he wanted to go through it with me. He said no, and then whispered to me “I hate him, Mr Colin. I HATE him!” I went through and saw Mao - or a wax dummy. Who knows? When I came out I whispered carefully to my friend “Good news, Professor! He is STILL dead!” Well, he laughed and laughed and repeated that line to me - He is still dead! For the next three months we worked together he would often look at me, grin, and say “He is still dead” as he clapped his hands and laughed. Sometimes with a little dance. He would have passed away by now, but I think of him often.
An interpreter I worked with in the UK about 10 years ago, who was in her 30s and from Shanghai, told me she'd never heard of it until she got to Britain.
nice try.....Almost all Chinese people over 40 years old know about the Tiananmen Incident.... Do you know why? Because it was reported on TV news at the time🤣
Apparently YT has problems with me calling Russian style mid century totalitarianism another word for "religion with few followers with weird beliefs" Gotta love CCP censorship.
@@thepeskytraveller3870 Yes, sadly it sure is typical. But not every source glosses over; it takes digging to put the facts together. We’ll never know the actual numbers but I’m satisfied believing it’s closest to 65M.
@@thepeskytraveller3870 For a firsthand inside look into Mao’s life as the revolutionary leader of the CCP I recommend the documentary ‘The Revolutionary.’ It’s very in depth, quite a shocking look through the eyes of a Jewish American who became the only American ever to be a card-carrying CCP member. Happy trails, traveler, and safe ones.
45 million to 80 million dead bodies, more than the population of UK. Now, tell us, where were all the physical locations of MASS GRAVES in China?? At the same time, can you show us any photographs of the 60 to 70 millions of dead bodies laying around the whole China. If you cannot, your allegation is only just FAIRY TALES.
The first time I heard that Mao had ordered them to kill all those birds, I was horrified. Mao's reason- "each sparrow takes 3 grains of rice away, for every sparrow brought in,"... -the people would receive 3 grains of rice for each dead sparrow. I can't imagine a world without the sounds of birds.
He was convinced he was following the science. But it still had deeply dogmatic and personality cult undertones. Turns out things can be accepted as science that turn out to be dogmatic but wrong, such as social Darwinism, eugenics, nazsm, and Marxism.
@@andyb619Well said! He really did think Marxism-Leninism was scientific (it was referred to as “scientific socialism”). His writings are quite interesting, but it was certainly idealistic and dogmatic with regards to solving class struggle.
Lenin did the same thing...then discovered things were not working out...so he purged and murdered 15,000. Then collectivized and killed millions. Then Stalin took charge and starved and murdered 30 million more.
This is by far the best channel for history ever.... the video footage alone makes this one stand out from all others.. and its refreshingly new footage and the well presented facts alone that makes this my goto channel for documentaries... well done lads!
It’s interesting what lessons people choose to take from this. What largely started out with good intentions - an alleviation of crushing poverty and social inequality - turned into a national cult, with all the hallmarks of a cult. In reality I think we just can’t give a person that much power. It turns dangerous every time. Distributed power and accountability are non-negotiable.
LOL bless your heart, there were never good intentions. 😂😂😂 You probably always vote for whoever promises you rainbows and unicorns, candidates, don't you? 😂😂😂
If you think for a minute there were "good intentions," you really do not understand communism. You fool yourself into blaming it on cultism; people had no choice but to act the part if they were to survive another day. Mao and his followers were evil through and through, and they would sacrifice anyone and as many as they had to to hold onto power. And seeing people suffer was their fetish. We have to give up this nonsense of the "good intentions" of political leaders who deliberately put people through hell.
The Peoples' Dynasty got off to a rocky start. But it eventually found its' course, got in the groove, righted itself, or whatever. And for all that, the rulers of China have done much for the people of China. China has become a modern, advanced, and civil society. ( no warlords - like Chicago )
"a rocky start" Hmmm? Millions starved to death - intentionally. How about the tens of thousands were shot and killed for political reasons? And a cultural revolution that repressed and persecuted? And the Uyghurs? And social credits today? One child policy that will plummet that nation into a depopulation crisis, not to mention the human rights outrages that enforced those laws? Hong Kong? Really? A rocky start?
Fully half my ancestors starved in the Irish Famine in Donegal in 1847. Their mass grave, unmarked except for a huge depression in the ground is their only epitaph. It was deliberate in Ireland and just over 100 years later in China, to cow the populace and receive foreign cash from the sale of farm produce, all to build Maos Army and weaponry
Remember as well the fear put into people by the idealistic and brainwashed 'students ' holding up their little red book while playing judge jury and executioner at will... neighbors turning in neighbors.. families doing the same... scary for sure
We n the West don’t tend to learn about China’s history, so documentaries such as this one are valuable in teaching us the terrible, tragic reality behind the dogma and the propaganda. I grew up on the 1960s, I remember how terribly impressed we all were, especially middle class intellectuals, with the idea of Chinese and soviet communism, little did we realise the inhumane and soul-destroying nature, as well as the sheer insane impracticality and unreasonableness, of this doctrinaire ideology of monstrous personality cult and institutionalised deceit.
@@tracyli5201 sadly yes. when I was little I remember watching news of the Tienemen square demonstrations and seeing "Tank man"'s image on the newspapers. I watched the Berlin wall crumble down and how everyone danced with bottles of wine live on TV. Cubans so desperate to get out of their communist country they came over in anything that floated, sometimes drowning in the process. Its sad to know that no one pays attention to these things anymore and how profound it is to witness and understand as a child. and yet our entire educational system and the college educated are determined to ignore important world events because it doesn't fit their narrative
The mankind has tried the experiment of Communism enough times and yielded enough death tolls that it should be swept into the dustbin of history like fascism and Nazism. @@aubreymorgan9763
This is an outstanding documentary. I had the privilege to hear a top university in China describe to me in tears what he saw from the famine in this period when he was sent to the countryside. He was a strong communist supporter. But the sight of the famine and its aftermath, made him disillusioned. Yet, he could not get out of China. Do, he said, he had to stay and continue yo be a communist party member because there is no way out. 20 some years after that conversation, his daughter came to the U.S. to study. Never to return.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to enter the war, and China also got the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
Historians estimate that Stalin (during his reign) killed an estimated (conservatively) 56,000,000 persons. Others peg the number at 60,000,000. Mao killed 45-55,000,000. Those numbers speak horrifically for the tragedy that unfolded in Russia (U.S.S.R.) and China (P.R.C.).
and the fact that they aren't as deeply vilified in western pop culture as the nazis - who had roughly 20 million dead? - proves that the victors are the ones to write history. I mean, come on, I see college students and highschoolers wandering around with hammer n' sickle shirts, caps, pins, etc. They sport a Che Guevara shirt, too, as if the man wasn't a murderer as well....
That number looks more like the number of people that died during Stalins reign, about 2 decades, not the number that Stalin killed. People die you know, even for natural causes.
Don't forget Deng Xiaoping still need one Child policy and China still have 1.4 Billion population 😂 make me wonder why Western propaganda so bad at math 😂
My late father said to me what ever you become don't become a Communist. His mother, my Grandma escaped twice from Stalin's troops with her childhood family. Stalin hated Finnic tribes.
Thank you for sharing that meaningful piece of your family history! It's clear that your father and grandmother went through a lot, and their experiences have shaped your perspective. It's always important to honor our past while building a better future. 🌟❤
For those who haven’t seen this documentary, I highly recommend ‘The Revolutionary’ about Sidney Rittenberg’s life following Mao after leaving the service of the US military. He’s a highly intelligent individual, but it’s a difficult watch because why on earth would an American Jew ever choose to be a member of and faithfully serve the CCP, mostly as Mao’s righthand man. He spent many years in prison on two separate terms of trumped up charges that amounted to nothing, and still he sided with, loved, chose - he chose Mao’s “dream” over freedom in his own country, and it was offered. I’ve watched it a few times and will do so again. He never saw himself as part of mass genocide although it was all around him. He was too into being a revolutionary for Mao Zedong and the CCP. Frankly I think that’s a thin line between sanity and lack of moral judgment. Fascinating look at all that was going on though, an inside look into the earliest days through the horrific atrocities within the country. It’s a must see for everyone who looks at all the facets of historical events.
@@HyBr1dRaNg3r Of course that’s true of Communist China; my comment is about Sid Rittenberg’s life as a firebrand for Mao’s dream, so I’m unclear about your comment’s reference in that regard.
I'm not sure why it's surprising. Jews have always been very prominent in communist causes. They were strongly represented among the bloodiest subordinates in the darkest time periods of the Soviet Union.
11:19, Mao's philosophy was nothing but supreme narcissism and self-protection. He once said, "Whatever I am most afraid of someone doing to me, I will do it to him first."
Dictators are scary, they do things that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, and they are on a different scale. Both Mao and Stalin killed tens of millions of people.
Propaganda is powerful. But look at the history of the Imperial Court of China’s 10,000 years. And while I’m on it. Russian national identity was established around 1000 common era. In all that time they have never known anything but strong men…whether a Tsar or a Communist Premier. So collectivism begins to look good to the “peasants,” much like the French Revolution, they were just far more repressive.
What do you mean? Redistribution from the poor to the rich works almost every time. The worst someone could do is make a hypocritical documentary about you (looking at you England. "Mao was one of the greatest murderers of the 20th century" while pumping the country with opium)
Every one of the Communist and Socialist societies started with good intentions that preached equality, fairness and greater social welfare yet they all ended in mass death, yet there is always no shortage of people in western society who FEEL that because their intentions are good that therefore things will end up different as they push the same policies at a slower pace through democracies.
Leaders that practice socialism only preach equality to there own elite tribe groups but enemies to the small rural tribe groups even though they live in the same land so Stalinism and Maolism is just another absolute power not a democracy socialism
Communism has never been put in place to benefit the people. It has only ever been promised to convince the people to overthrow their current ruling class to create a new one. Mao followed Stalin in his use of lysenkoism and then the policy of starving the countryside to feed the cities, leaving to countryside too weak to revolt and the city too dependent on the system to revolt. This was just him replaying stalin’s atrocities faithfully.
It sounds like you might be referencing a traumatic event or historical situation where survival was at stake, such as extreme famine or survival situations. Many individuals who have experienced such severe circumstances may find it difficult to discuss their experiences due to the psychological and emotional weight of those memories.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist and did not cooperate with China, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to participate in the war, and China also exchanged for the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
@@jn1mrgn right…unfortunately. Our education system has deteriorated so badly and we’re all going to pay for their far out ideologies. We’re in trouble
@@schmee9025Because in the real world communism only happens by force. Thus the authoritarian government springs to life to enforce the equity people crave. If people really wanted communism the United States would be flooded with communes, but it's not.
@@PorkChopAChunky idk how to tell you this but capitalism is literally enforced. by force. theres no options here pork chop. and didnt answer my question, communist theory declares no leadership roles or authority. this is fascism.
We are heading that way today. Only exception is that it will be global. Today they are taking land and farms globally, and giving us seedless fruits and vegetables.
We complain so much about how terrible our western lives are, yet so many have no idea how bad life can really get if things fall apart. We treat shit like this as ancient history, these people are still alive!
Shit... the cultural differences were astounding. Picture China in 1958 compared with the average lifestyle in the USA, for instance. On one side you've got heated homes with refrigerators, microwave ovens, televisions, a car on nearly every driveway, massive prosperity etc. and at the same time you've also got human beings literally eating mud to stay alive across the other side of the globe. 😶
@@DodgyDaveGTX The difference is that the US had just made a lot of money from WW2, not been invaded or bombed and then had its currency made the reserve currency of the World. China on the other hand had just ended a century of humiliation at the hands of foreign powers had to rebuild from scratch.
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It's hard to believe that ine human being could do these things to millions of other humans. But when i was a kid,we were taught about chairman Mao,and what he did to his people. I was still a little boy when he was still on power. There weren't any tears shed when he died in 1976 .
"Yeah, it’s really shocking how one person can impact so many lives. It’s almost like history has a way of repeating itself or something. Who would have thought, right? And not shedding tears over a dictator? Shocking! I guess some lessons just don't stick."
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Exactly, the more you look at life and the more you understand that in reality it's just a curse. Few joyful moments for a lifetime of pain. How many of us would accept to take form an live trough their life if they knew what is waiting for them?
Thank you for this invaluable informations gathered from this documentary . This is the reason why history becomes the most important subject to be learned at school .
This was a 12-page chapter in my highschool world history class. It deserves more than 12 pages. They should show this to every highschool student. You should never blindly follow any leader
I had a Chinese teacher about ten years ago, her parents lived through that time period and the Cultural Revolution. She told us her parents told her, during that time all we had to eat was cabbage and beets but we were greatfull for that
Then why hundreds of food processing plants burned to the ground, cattle burned, milk cows burned, farm land bought out by shell named companies owned by China + Bill Gates hailing China. All the wicked ways of Mao are weaving through the USA
"Oh, absolutely! It's like having a VIP pass to say whatever you want while sipping on a freedom-flavored cocktail. Who needs actual consequences when you can just enjoy the illusion?"
While I’m totally against dictatorships and the totalitarian drama they bring, let’s not pretend capitalism is the golden child either. Sure, it’s great at whipping up innovation and lining some pockets, but when it comes to true equality? Please. It often swings the pendulum the other way, widening that chasm between the haves and the have-nots. And let’s not forget how it serenades right-wing parties to exploit our economic woes for their sketchy agendas. The rich keep getting richer while the rest of us are left rolling our eyes in disillusionment. It’s high time we take a hard look at our economic systems and demand something that actually puts people first-because allowing a few to live like royalty while the rest struggle is so last season!
@@heinuchung8680a lot of peasants had died so the crops failed. The sparrows were blamed for this failure as a propagandist tactic. The poor sparrows and poorer people
My grandma actually lived through this and it was painful because her parents well they passed away when she was only 3 days old she had her feet bind and in those times if you got married and your husband or wife passed away you could not marry again you had to stay a widow for the rest of your life even if you had children’s or not
That is why I have worked at my supermarket for 35 years. That is where the food is at. Plus gas, drugs and my Bud Lite. I will die in my store I can't leave.
In Tibet which was invaded by PRC in 1949-50, the Great Leap Forward caused the only great famine in Tibetan history. Over 1/2 million Tibetans, out of a population of only 6 million, died as a result of this famine.
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Ironically, it wasn't until Deng Xiaoping instituted reforms and opened up China to foreign investment that the country underwent the greatest growth and modernisation within a few decades. Something that couldn't be achieved under Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Backward and Cultural Devolution (which is exactly what the two events deserve to be called if you ask me). So, when the patriotic Chinese boast about how quickly China modernised and became a manufacturing powerhouse and earning it the title "Factory of the World", it was because China under Deng Xiaoping allowed Western money and know-how to flow into the country. Without it, China would likely still remain as an agricultural backwater, or worst still, ceased to exist because of Mao's reign of death and destruction of everything that China ever was.
I visited liu shao qi prime minister of china's village where they have a museum there and local people told me he was starved to death.Most people in china now realise what mao has done.
Who? Who wants to bring mass starvation and the killing of entire species (sparrows) to America? I mean the average American could certainly go a week or two of starvation seeing as it’s the most obese nation on earth, but no one wants to see the Great Leap Forward American styles happen
They are using the same strategy that Mao did. Use stupid kids as an instrument for their demise. Sad really, you show these poor kids the truth but they scream “Nazis” at you.
Mao’s policies often prioritized ideologies over practical economic strategies, leading to significant disruptions, such as the Great Leap Forward, which caused famine and economic hardship. Without his influence, China might have embraced more market-oriented reforms earlier, akin to the policies later introduced by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. This could have led to improved economic outcomes sooner, potentially accelerating modernization and reducing poverty.
When I first went to China in 1988, you could see still the impact of the Cultural Revolution. When I met kids born during that period in villages, most had physical deformities. Once the CCP got out of the way of the Chinese people, the country blossomed. Now we are seeing the impact of CCP getting in the way of the people again. Every Chinese person I talk to - in China or out - have the same message. Jobs and business are dying. People are struggling. Most want to leave. The lucky ones had foresight and left long ago or at least put assets outside of China and have some type of alternate passport or residency. Oh, the China connected Expats have the same message. These people were super bullish on China up until just a year or two ago.
😮 Unyet, life is OK there now, according to my son, living in China ( he's an Australian) English graduate. Been there for 20 or so years now. Visits us all in Australia every year with his son ❤. Loves his life, he's not a commie, like me and most Aussies we are NOT political! ❤
Should have spent more time learning about this in the high school curriculum. I'm always going back to history now that I'm older and always learning new details.
Mao's great leap forward. Instead of stimulating the country's economy, The Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation and famine. It is estimated that between 30 and 45 million Chinese citizens died due to famine, execution, and forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction. Under Mao Zedong an estimated 80 million died as victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist and did not cooperate with China, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to participate in the war, and China also exchanged for the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
“Oh, absolutely! Because nothing screams ‘peaceful resolution’ like an armed society! I mean, who needs conversations or compromise when you’ve got guns, right?”
No, he started it by preaching embracing a new system/belief in your heart that the older generation and non peasants did not embrace to the point he viewed them as enemies of the revolution while almost all under 30 (in his mind) were ready for the new; obviously he made the communist call to kill tens of millions lol
The youth fundamentally believed everything he had said (like Trump, he was viewed as an everyman that you could trust to tell the real truth the capitalist/traditional pillars of power lie about) and that is really the start of things like this.
Figures who opposed or were sidelined by Mao could have emerged as leaders, such as Liu Shaoqi or Deng Xiaoping, potentially shaping China’s trajectory in unique ways, favoring economic modernization over ideological strictness.
For generation after generation after generation the strength of the Chinese people cannot be overstated. May God have mercy on those who continue to suffer
Mao's foreign policy was often confrontational, marked by tensions with the West and other communist countries. A different leadership might have pursued diplomatic relations earlier, potentially leading to more constructive engagement with the West and altering the trajectory of China’s integration into the global economy.
The “work points” sound to be completely opposite to the stated goal of communism: from each according to his means, to each according to their needs…What is more needed than food?😳
The Cultural Revolution brought significant turmoil, impacting education, arts, and intellectual discourse. A China without Mao might have seen more stable cultural and educational developments, fostering a more open society and allowing for the preservation of cultural heritage.
I just cannot understand how anyone can respect or have ANYTHING positive to say about a human that starved 45 million of his own people to death. Why is this the person you want to represent the spirit of your country after decades, how have you not gained any intelligence or perspective since then…? I’m being completely serious, do people in modern day China actually see this man as a good leader? Why promote a human that did this? I don’t understand.
During a number of my conversations with Harvey Goldberg we didn't touch on Mao and his "Little Book." I wonder what Harvey's reaction would have been if I made the statement that Mao killed more his citizens than Hitler and Stalin did of theirs combined. Like Dylan said back in the day: "I was so much older then, I'm younger that than now."
A great documentary. The famine and the great leap forward had made the Chinese one of the most conservative in terms of money decisions (likes saving money a lot), learning that first hand from my Chinese grandparents. Interestingly that makes a lot of young Chinese have the habit of saving money now. Similarly, the older generations have a very strong opinion against wasting food. Of course, we shouldn't waste food in general, but they sometimes don't want to get rid of even spoiled food - this happens to even the wealthier families that you wouldn't think this would happen. All of this are due to historical reasons mentioned in the documentary.
This documentary has to be here. Hong Kong has been deprived of freedom of speech after 2019 and we don't know if the university lecturer interviewed can still do his job and how long his research results could survive anytime soon.
Mao’s era was marked by significant repression, including purges and lack of political freedom. Without his authoritarian style of governance, one could envision a different approach to civil rights and governance, possibly leading to more liberal reforms and less oppressive policies.
my hobby is studying wars and self induced political calamaties , mostly through ridiculous so called goverment programs...the chinese have dealt with so much diverse hardship and yet made it through. the chinese have my admiration for there endurance...
What a great documentary. My grandparents died from the famine caused by "Great leap forward". My father survived since he was studying in a normal school with the food supplied by the government. He always regretted that he cannot take care of his parents. But if he was staying with his parents, he would also die.
I hope you are safe and happy here in the US. US/ Chinese history needs to be taught in US schools. Chinese people greatly added to the formation and success of the US. The first transcontinental railroad was mostly built by Chinese. They figured if Chinese could build the great wall, they can build a railroad... and they did.
Chinese people are industrious hardworking people ruled by tyrants. Always has been since the first emperor 221 B.C, and still is under the boots of CCP. There is no escape of it. The history always repeats itself with every dynasty.@@TheBandit7613
That sucks. I love to eat a big meal while I watch these documentaries.
@@povnw8985 What a classy remark.
@@TheBandit7613 Do you realize that was mostly the Western half of Transcontinental Railroad the Eastern half was mostly built by Freed Men and Irish immigrants? I might be missing a group here on the Eastern half and apologize. Also do you realize that they weren't all Chinese but were referred to at that time as Chinamen which just described anyone who had a certain look in America basically, so it could include people of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and even Korean ancestry. Most of the people who worked to build the transcontinental railroad were immigrants from China and Ireland. These immigrants faced discrimination in the U.S., but their labor made this national achievement possible.
I remember my Late father drumming it into my brother and myself , to eat all our food up, as Millions of people in China were starving , I never really appreciated why he said that , till now .
Me too. It actually seemed a bit silly as a kid. But this really is so serious and sad.
Yankee propaganda check it
Just before US invaded and NATO countries invaded Libya, ppl where told how evil tge Libyan leader Gaddafi was. Now, we all know that was not true. Libya under Gaddafi was rich and prosperous.
If you still believe in Western media, then there's no help for you.
@@marks7167 the demographics of china don't lie. there is a reason that the age group that relates to the years of famine is so much smaller than other age groups of china.
Remember: communism never worked, will not work in the future.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
Always remember this. Think critically
Yup, its a famine due to lack of rain, but its Mao's fault? Mao stopped the rain?
Like right here in Amerika now that's absurd you could use a little self criticism your self
amazing to see chinese ppl defending the attrocities, so common for the abused to establish a strong emotional bond to the abuser
@@majermike is that why US and NATO countries love Israel?
@@marks7167 Please elaborate?
Every American needs to watch this video. We never learn from history so we are doomed to repeat it.
America is done for white minority soon 57% census 2021 American will turn into another South American country
You mean every Chinese national should watch this. Because more Americans know about that period than the average Chinese people do. Because Chinese history has been heavily sanitized or outright erased in mainland China. This is why Mao is so revered, even though he hated Chinese culture and was indifferent to their suffering.
@@breveth you're giving the united states far too much credit. the major of our college educated the last 10-15 years at least are pushing for communisim to come here and they're getting louder. they have not taught our children about things like this in schools since the 1990s
@@aubreymorgan9763 how is communism coming to America? I get the feeling you don't understand capitalism or communism.
@@breveth maybe you should re-read what I wrote. I didn't say it was coming. I said they are pushing for it...they want it to come, not that it is here.
Hitler is always described as the epitome of evil, but Stalin made Hitler look like a choirboy, and Mao made Stalin look like a Sunday school teacher.
The International Red Cross and various other countries offered food aid, but Mao and his communist thugs refused it.
Hitler was the byproduct of Prussian imperialism and its unchecked violence
Stalin and Mao are characters who wanted to be emperors, who really believed they were superior to others, and whose ideas should not be wrong
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But for some strange reason the Australian painter is the most evil person that ever lived. Not Stalin or Mao who killed millions and millions more people. Why is that? What the Austrian painter did fits an agenda. Make of it what you will. Take Care ❤
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Austrian painter.
Though there are some pretty bad Aussie painters.
The same happened in the USSR. They starved the rural areas in order to industrialize!!!😱😭😫
You don’t know Stalin is Mao’s teacher? Mao copied most of what he did in USSR.
That was the holodemore
Stalin did it on purpose. In ukraine. He blocked the entrances to the country and caused death by starvation.
@@Niko-vh8pj If you read the source material it doesn't appear to have been deliberate on Stalin's part but the outcome of his collectivisation policy. Many Russians also died during the Holodomor not only Ukrainians, some of the worst famine-affected areas were outside the Ukrainian SSR.
Also, Stalin used his terror famine to punish Ukrainians who had resisted his failed policies. He demanded unrealistic quotas while letting grain rot
My Fiancée is Chinese, and she told me her parents lived through that time. They were both haunted by what they saw and experienced until the day they died.
I’m 70. My former girlfriend was a teen when she was sent to a camp. Her father was an academic though didn’t face persecution. Oddly she remembered that time at camp as a pleasant experience. She was a city girl and it was so refreshing to breathe country air and experience nature and growing food. She might slip of to a nearby town with a friend to trade some produce for some buns. I’m not saying these weren’t harsh times for most. It shocks me that she had a positive experience. She gave me a collection of Mao pins her mother had saved. She remembered the propaganda songs. But one song she loved was a Chinese spoof of a Soviet patriotic song. All the words are Chinese and are NOT a translation of the Russian song. They were chosen for the way they sounded almost Russian. Literally it was a silly song about frogs in a pond or something like that. Sung so forcefully. Afterwards we would both laugh hard. Best wishes for you and your soon to be wife. Vote Blue, lol.
The International Red Cross and various other countries offered food aid, but Mao and his communist thugs refused it.
Get ready for the Liberal Left to send this country that direction.
Vote blue...are you an idiot did you not watch the video
Forcing experimental gene therapies on people is tyrranical.
Glad this is available. This is a prime example of what misery can unfold when one leader consolidates all power amongst himself and his close followers. Fifty million deaths, unimaginable despair.
'The party' .. if someone's using that term, RUN!
What about the Xi Jinping administration? I hear that he worships Mao Zedong. Oh, in communist China, where the society is monitored by camera AI, people can't express their true feelings
It's actually any form of collectivism that causes this, But usually communism or socialism.
@bobdobalina838 indeed even those 'rightwing' natzis stemmed from Marx
@@Kaz.Klay.common term here in Nigeria. Corruption thrives bcos of that too. USD-NGN exchange rate risen over 100% against the NGN in over the past 9months. People are hungry!!
If I was a high school history teacher I’d make all of my students watch. It’s such a masterclass in how politicians make lofty promises and mobilize the population against itself to consolidate power.
You would be fired for disloyalty to the party.
If it happens in recorded history,it must be shown or humanity will repeat it in a different incarnations,the communist will always fail in the end because that's how that system works,study their adjectives not the subject.
No you wouldn't. You wouldn't dare. Do you have any idea what would happen if they found out you were actually teaching history instead of making activists that hate men, white people, and america?
You would be sacked immediately, they don't want kids knowing this, so they can do it again.
I would not call the Chinese past or present “Politicians”
I lived in China for a few years. When I asked my Chinese teacher about the Tian'an Men Square revolt back in 1989, she asked me as in shock how I knew that.
👍It's censorship. Many Chinese people still don't know what happened at all. Outsiders know the terrible incident more than Chinese citizens.
Gee, maybe your intelligence?!
I spent a year in China in the mid ‘90’s. My interpreter was an Electrical Engineer. He was at school when the Japanese invaded in the ‘30’s, was in the University during the Hundred Flowers movement. He was critical,of the party and was sent to the countryside to “learn from the peasants “. He survived the Great Leap Forward, but during the Cultural Revolution he was again purged, did self-criticisms, was beaten almost daily. As an electrical engineer, his job was to dig the holes for telegraph and power poles. When Deng Xiaoping came to power and declared “It is glorious to get rich” he was repatriate society and for the first time was allowed to teach and run a business. He was an English interpreter for many companies.
We were walking around Tiananmen Square and Mao’s Mausoleum was open and I asked if he wanted to go through it with me. He said no, and then whispered to me “I hate him, Mr Colin. I HATE him!” I went through and saw Mao - or a wax dummy. Who knows? When I came out I whispered carefully to my friend “Good news, Professor! He is STILL dead!” Well, he laughed and laughed and repeated that line to me - He is still dead! For the next three months we worked together he would often look at me, grin, and say “He is still dead” as he clapped his hands and laughed. Sometimes with a little dance. He would have passed away by now, but I think of him often.
An interpreter I worked with in the UK about 10 years ago, who was in her 30s and from Shanghai, told me she'd never heard of it until she got to Britain.
nice try.....Almost all Chinese people over 40 years old know about the Tiananmen Incident.... Do you know why? Because it was reported on TV news at the time🤣
Insane…. 45 million people and yet his ugly picture is still up?
That is the tragedy of Chinese peoples weakness and cowardice.
Same in Cuba and Venezuela with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez pictures and artworks
Communism really is a kind of cult.
Af tryd to warn you back in the 1930s
Apparently YT has problems with me calling Russian style mid century totalitarianism another word for "religion with few followers with weird beliefs" Gotta love CCP censorship.
45,000,000 - Let that sink in!
And yet, displaying the symbols of communism is allowed?
History actually puts it at 45-80M. Geopolitics had rather keep the number at a middling 45M rather than admit the number is likely much higher.
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652typical isn't it?
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Yes, sadly it sure is typical. But not every source glosses over; it takes digging to put the facts together. We’ll never know the actual numbers but I’m satisfied believing it’s closest to 65M.
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For a firsthand inside look into Mao’s life as the revolutionary leader of the CCP I recommend the documentary ‘The Revolutionary.’ It’s very in depth, quite a shocking look through the eyes of a Jewish American who became the only American ever to be a card-carrying CCP member. Happy trails, traveler, and safe ones.
45 million to 80 million dead bodies, more than the population of UK. Now, tell us, where were all the physical locations of MASS GRAVES in China??
At the same time, can you show us any photographs of the 60 to 70 millions of dead bodies laying around the whole China. If you cannot, your allegation is only just FAIRY TALES.
Imagine being so dumb you kill all the sparrows for “stealing from the people” which in turn let all the bugs destroy crops for decades. Wow
They tough the sparrows were destroying the crops... very dumb too.
The first time I heard that Mao had ordered them to kill all those birds, I was horrified. Mao's reason- "each sparrow takes 3 grains of rice away, for every sparrow brought in,"... -the people would receive 3 grains of rice for each dead sparrow.
I can't imagine a world without the sounds of birds.
Someone set a target and others blindly met it to prove their loyalty. It didn't matter how dumb the target was. It was murder out there.
I know, right? When I first heard that, I was blown away.
@@directorstu And if you dare argue even with scientific fact, you will be "disappear" instead.
This is the type of thing that happens when you let theory overcome practice and replace science with ideology and political cultism.
He was convinced he was following the science. But it still had deeply dogmatic and personality cult undertones. Turns out things can be accepted as science that turn out to be dogmatic but wrong, such as social Darwinism, eugenics, nazsm, and Marxism.
@@andyb619Well said! He really did think Marxism-Leninism was scientific (it was referred to as “scientific socialism”). His writings are quite interesting, but it was certainly idealistic and dogmatic with regards to solving class struggle.
Lenin did the same thing...then discovered things were not working out...so he purged and murdered 15,000. Then collectivized and killed millions. Then Stalin took charge and starved and murdered 30 million more.
Looks exactly like what is happening today. Follow "The Science".
Much like the West today, then?
This is by far the best channel for history ever.... the video footage alone makes this one stand out from all others.. and its refreshingly new footage and the well presented facts alone that makes this my goto channel for documentaries... well done lads!
Agreed, but the female narrator does not make a real effort to pronounce Chinese names correctly - wrong number of syllables in names.
Poignant comment, a country that can't face its history has no future.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for the laugh dude
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What a great documentary. Probably the best one I have seen on this subject.
It’s interesting what lessons people choose to take from this. What largely started out with good intentions - an alleviation of crushing poverty and social inequality - turned into a national cult, with all the hallmarks of a cult. In reality I think we just can’t give a person that much power. It turns dangerous every time. Distributed power and accountability are non-negotiable.
LOL bless your heart, there were never good intentions. 😂😂😂 You probably always vote for whoever promises you rainbows and unicorns, candidates, don't you? 😂😂😂
If you think for a minute there were "good intentions," you really do not understand communism. You fool yourself into blaming it on cultism; people had no choice but to act the part if they were to survive another day. Mao and his followers were evil through and through, and they would sacrifice anyone and as many as they had to to hold onto power. And seeing people suffer was their fetish. We have to give up this nonsense of the "good intentions" of political leaders who deliberately put people through hell.
@@slappy8941Those that promise equality, always crave all the power for themselves. Stalin, Mao, WEF.
The Peoples' Dynasty got off to a rocky start. But it eventually found its' course, got in the groove, righted itself, or whatever. And for all that, the rulers of China have done much for the people of China. China has become a modern, advanced, and civil society. ( no warlords - like Chicago )
"a rocky start" Hmmm? Millions starved to death - intentionally. How about the tens of thousands were shot and killed for political reasons? And a cultural revolution that repressed and persecuted? And the Uyghurs? And social credits today? One child policy that will plummet that nation into a depopulation crisis, not to mention the human rights outrages that enforced those laws? Hong Kong? Really? A rocky start?
Every future generation needs to learn about this.
A history needs to be documented, leaned, but never to be repeated, anywhere anytime.
Fully half my ancestors starved in the Irish Famine in Donegal in 1847. Their mass grave, unmarked except for a huge depression in the ground is their only epitaph. It was deliberate in Ireland and just over 100 years later in China, to cow the populace and receive foreign cash from the sale of farm produce, all to build Maos Army and weaponry
It was genocide. Plenty of food was available, they just exported it to England.
You do understand the difference
My people (Native) sent food to Ireland during the potato famine, we developed a good friendship with the Irish.
Remember as well the fear put into people by the idealistic and brainwashed 'students ' holding up their little red book while playing judge jury and executioner at will... neighbors turning in neighbors.. families doing the same... scary for sure
Stalin used the same formula in Ukraine, Ukrainian grain for western technology and millions starved to death.
We n the West don’t tend to learn about China’s history, so documentaries such as this one are valuable in teaching us the terrible, tragic reality behind the dogma and the propaganda. I grew up on the 1960s, I remember how terribly impressed we all were, especially middle class intellectuals, with the idea of Chinese and soviet communism, little did we realise the inhumane and soul-destroying nature, as well as the sheer insane impracticality and unreasonableness, of this doctrinaire ideology of monstrous personality cult and institutionalised deceit.
Still, many young woke left on university campus in the West ideologize Mao and Stalin. No kidding.
@@tracyli5201 sadly yes. when I was little I remember watching news of the Tienemen square demonstrations and seeing "Tank man"'s image on the newspapers. I watched the Berlin wall crumble down and how everyone danced with bottles of wine live on TV. Cubans so desperate to get out of their communist country they came over in anything that floated, sometimes drowning in the process. Its sad to know that no one pays attention to these things anymore and how profound it is to witness and understand as a child. and yet our entire educational system and the college educated are determined to ignore important world events because it doesn't fit their narrative
The mankind has tried the experiment of Communism enough times and yielded enough death tolls that it should be swept into the dustbin of history like fascism and Nazism. @@aubreymorgan9763
And that's because they don't want educated people in the west. You have noticed how many idiots are pretending communism is a good way to go.
then I hope you stopped voting for Democarts
This is an outstanding documentary. I had the privilege to hear a top university in China describe to me in tears what he saw from the famine in this period when he was sent to the countryside. He was a strong communist supporter. But the sight of the famine and its aftermath, made him disillusioned. Yet, he could not get out of China. Do, he said, he had to stay and continue yo be a communist party member because there is no way out. 20 some years after that conversation, his daughter came to the U.S. to study. Never to return.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to enter the war, and China also got the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
Historians estimate that Stalin (during his reign) killed an estimated (conservatively) 56,000,000 persons. Others peg the number at 60,000,000. Mao killed 45-55,000,000. Those numbers speak horrifically for the tragedy that unfolded in Russia (U.S.S.R.) and China (P.R.C.).
and the fact that they aren't as deeply vilified in western pop culture as the nazis - who had roughly 20 million dead? - proves that the victors are the ones to write history. I mean, come on, I see college students and highschoolers wandering around with hammer n' sickle shirts, caps, pins, etc.
They sport a Che Guevara shirt, too, as if the man wasn't a murderer as well....
That number looks more like the number of people that died during Stalins reign, about 2 decades, not the number that Stalin killed. People die you know, even for natural causes.
Don't forget the holodomor .. ukraine numbers were huge
Don't forget Deng Xiaoping still need one Child policy and China still have 1.4 Billion population 😂 make me wonder why Western propaganda so bad at math 😂
Why did all that happen? Certainly something caused it to happen. What happened before 1958, 1957, etc? Can anyone tell me?
My late father said to me what ever you become don't become a Communist. His mother, my Grandma escaped twice from Stalin's troops with her childhood family. Stalin hated Finnic tribes.
Well don’t become a Fascist Republican…just as bad!
Sorry your grandma had to go through that. Stalin was as bad as they come.
@@TheResilient5689 well let’s make sure we never repeat it or any other genocidal maniac.
Thank you for sharing that meaningful piece of your family history! It's clear that your father and grandmother went through a lot, and their experiences have shaped your perspective. It's always important to honor our past while building a better future. 🌟❤
For those who haven’t seen this documentary, I highly recommend ‘The Revolutionary’ about Sidney Rittenberg’s life following Mao after leaving the service of the US military. He’s a highly intelligent individual, but it’s a difficult watch because why on earth would an American Jew ever choose to be a member of and faithfully serve the CCP, mostly as Mao’s righthand man. He spent many years in prison on two separate terms of trumped up charges that amounted to nothing, and still he sided with, loved, chose - he chose Mao’s “dream” over freedom in his own country, and it was offered. I’ve watched it a few times and will do so again. He never saw himself as part of mass genocide although it was all around him. He was too into being a revolutionary for Mao Zedong and the CCP. Frankly I think that’s a thin line between sanity and lack of moral judgment. Fascinating look at all that was going on though, an inside look into the earliest days through the horrific atrocities within the country. It’s a must see for everyone who looks at all the facets of historical events.
Because it goes further than politics, they worship their ideology like a religion would…
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Of course that’s true of Communist China; my comment is about Sid Rittenberg’s life as a firebrand for Mao’s dream, so I’m unclear about your comment’s reference in that regard.
A lot of the founding members of the CCP were ethnically Jewish. Israel Epstein headed Mao's propaganda apparatus
I'm not sure why it's surprising. Jews have always been very prominent in communist causes. They were strongly represented among the bloodiest subordinates in the darkest time periods of the Soviet Union.
Juicy.Thats How They Roll.See "Gaza".
11:19, Mao's philosophy was nothing but supreme narcissism and self-protection. He once said, "Whatever I am most afraid of someone doing to me, I will do it to him first."
Dictators are scary, they do things that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, and they are on a different scale. Both Mao and Stalin killed tens of millions of people.
And he indirectly killed many people maybe 20 millions or less
The International Red Cross and various other countries offered food aid, but Mao and his communist thugs refused it.
🤔 Hmmmmmmmm a lot of Maoists in this world.
@@johnteets2921 yea, I agree with that!
And yet this guy's face is still printed on the money today 😐
Would it be better to print your face on it? Why not ask the Chinese people what they think?
人类历史上，排名第一的人类恶魔，在他的治下，近一亿中国人失去宝贵生命
@@ХуэйЛи "Hey Chinese people what's your opinion on being starved to death because of incompetent leadership by a moron?"
Propaganda is powerful. But look at the history of the Imperial Court of China’s 10,000 years.
And while I’m on it. Russian national identity was established around 1000 common era. In all that time they have never known anything but strong men…whether a Tsar or a Communist Premier.
So collectivism begins to look good to the “peasants,” much like the French Revolution, they were just far more repressive.
@@ХуэйЛи thats funny and ironic. Since they have no voice in their own affairs. Its a dictatorship, dunce.
Redistribution never works. Never.
It's also immoral.
What do you mean? Redistribution from the poor to the rich works almost every time. The worst someone could do is make a hypocritical documentary about you (looking at you England. "Mao was one of the greatest murderers of the 20th century" while pumping the country with opium)
Its almost as if Marxists cannot create wealth but rather only consume it.
Yep bingo. its just wrong. goes against the laws of mother nature.
They want to do it here in the US!
I see you havent watched the documentary.
Every one of the Communist and Socialist societies started with good intentions that preached equality, fairness and greater social welfare yet they all ended in mass death, yet there is always no shortage of people in western society who FEEL that because their intentions are good that therefore things will end up different as they push the same policies at a slower pace through democracies.
Leaders that practice socialism only preach equality to there own elite tribe groups but enemies to the small rural tribe groups even though they live in the same land so Stalinism and Maolism is just another absolute power not a democracy socialism
Read the animal farm and you know it all. The book is from 1948 bij George Orwell. Mankind will never learn, it started with Cain and Abel.
But, but, but, this wasn't REAL communism.
Exactly!
Never is, is it?
Communism, in it's words, can never be implemented correctly. Common ownership of the means of production is an oxymoron.
It wasn't. My politics, revolutionary Marxism, has nothing to do with Maoism.
Communism has never been put in place to benefit the people. It has only ever been promised to convince the people to overthrow their current ruling class to create a new one. Mao followed Stalin in his use of lysenkoism and then the policy of starving the countryside to feed the cities, leaving to countryside too weak to revolt and the city too dependent on the system to revolt. This was just him replaying stalin’s atrocities faithfully.
38:30, Khrushchev begs Mao not to follow Stalin in collectivization.
Vietnam listened Cambodia didn't. Cambodia went full 'Retard'.
Living under communist rule is no joke. Let’s all learn from history.
Evil goes by many names. Britain starved millions of Irish. Americans exterminated the natives Americans.
Tell American kids in college this and they'll call you a nazi like they have me
No shit because now is amazing?The amount of money wr made during communism we will never be able to make during this exploitation..
The main reason why no old person wants to talk about this time period is because lots of them had to eat people who stay alive.
No I strongly disagree with that statement. I would even say that your assumption is a straight up insult to the people who lived trough that period.
😂😂 Like the Donner Family 😂
It sounds like you might be referencing a traumatic event or historical situation where survival was at stake, such as extreme famine or survival situations. Many individuals who have experienced such severe circumstances may find it difficult to discuss their experiences due to the psychological and emotional weight of those memories.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist and did not cooperate with China, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to participate in the war, and China also exchanged for the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
How any person can trust the leadership of his country is beyond me.
People trust Biden. Fear and propaganda can achieve miracles.
A Chinese, Russian or North Korean one is understandable. I hear Sweden, Finland and Denmark are doing fine.
@@alihenderson5910bush?
Socialism vs communism…
@Sharky-White-Death You hear wrong. Go ahead and look into how things are going in Europe. It's not China, but not good either.
“Im convinced that a Nation that can’t really face up to it’s history has no future” 49:30
Every region has its own 'Holocaust!" More to follow...
"Oh wow, that sounds super easy compared to what I go through trying to find matching socks in the laundry!"
Do you know that the majority of American young people know nothing about this topic.
Many of them want Maoism here.
Ignorance to the horrors that come along with Marxist and communist ideologies at our own detriment, very scary the ignorance to the radical left.
You're right. At work one day I asked some younger coworkers if they knew who Mao was and nobody had heard of him!!
@@christianstone4724 unbelievable eh!!!
@@jn1mrgn right…unfortunately. Our education system has deteriorated so badly and we’re all going to pay for their far out ideologies. We’re in trouble
"'real communism' is choosing which of your children you're going to eat that night so they others can live." - Carl Benjamin
No, that’s the military draft.
what im trying to figure out is how is it communism if theres a leader and clear ranks / classes
@@schmee9025Because in the real world communism only happens by force. Thus the authoritarian government springs to life to enforce the equity people crave. If people really wanted communism the United States would be flooded with communes, but it's not.
@@PorkChopAChunky idk how to tell you this but capitalism is literally enforced. by force. theres no options here pork chop. and didnt answer my question, communist theory declares no leadership roles or authority. this is fascism.
When the WEF says "You will own nothing & be happy" remember this video.
History ALWAYS repeats itself
We are heading that way today. Only exception is that it will be global. Today they are taking land and farms globally, and giving us seedless fruits and vegetables.
@jroll5858: No it doesn't, but it does rhyme! (According to Mark Twain)
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsPointless pedantry is the tool used to diminish the message, (According to me)
@@alihenderson5910How would you know? You don't even understand the comments!
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Nah, you are the one who hat doesn't understand.
"Great Leap Backwards"......
Now china is the second superpower so it work
The International Red Cross and various other countries offered food aid, but Mao and his communist thugs refused it.
Yeah you’re completely agreed.
Sounds like Kamala's "path forward"
They say, one step back two step forward. Look like they are doing just that.
We complain so much about how terrible our western lives are, yet so many have no idea how bad life can really get if things fall apart. We treat shit like this as ancient history, these people are still alive!
Shit... the cultural differences were astounding. Picture China in 1958 compared with the average lifestyle in the USA, for instance. On one side you've got heated homes with refrigerators, microwave ovens, televisions, a car on nearly every driveway, massive prosperity etc. and at the same time you've also got human beings literally eating mud to stay alive across the other side of the globe. 😶
@@DodgyDaveGTX The difference is that the US had just made a lot of money from WW2, not been invaded or bombed and then had its currency made the reserve currency of the World. China on the other hand had just ended a century of humiliation at the hands of foreign powers had to rebuild from scratch.
"You're absolutely right! It's easy to lose perspective when we're wrapped up in our own lives. 🌍🙏 We should definitely be more grateful and compassionate towards those who are still facing such challenges. 💖 Let's not forget to support and uplift each other! 🤝✨"
History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. ~Mark Twain.
Sometimes I am grateful to the world we live in currently. Imagine if youtube was censored and with no real information. That would have been so scary
TH-cam is censored.
"Oh, absolutely! Because nothing screams 'freedom' like the current state of TH-cam, where you can find a thousand conspiracy theories next to cat videos. So comforting!"
This is an eye opener, lot of work done to collect the facts, articulate and come up with this documentary.
THIS is exactly what happens when the people fail to overthrow evil and corrupt governments !!
45,000,000 is the low end of the estimated deaths. 100,000,000 is the higher end. That's 1/10 of a billion dead.
Most of the American left-wing "useful idiots" even today are fiercely defending the genocidal ideologies of Comrade Mao and Comrade Stalin.
It's hard to believe that ine human being could do these things to millions of other humans. But when i was a kid,we were taught about chairman Mao,and what he did to his people. I was still a little boy when he was still on power. There weren't any tears shed when he died in 1976 .
"Yeah, it’s really shocking how one person can impact so many lives. It’s almost like history has a way of repeating itself or something. Who would have thought, right? And not shedding tears over a dictator? Shocking! I guess some lessons just don't stick."
Never Forget
Mnemosyne
Never let a disaster go to waste.
Always Remember
Couldn't happen here!
Did she say "they profilerated" instead of proliferated? (13:47)
If you don't think these crimes against humanity can happen in a democratic society, think again. Vote responsibly.
Covid was proof that the world does forget.
@@sg-zd8eb Right, The things I've heard and read, people wishing death upon another... And they weren't joking. People can turn cruel very quickly.
"Absolutely! Remember, even in a democracy, the 'vote' can sometimes stand for 'very often misguided tactics'! Let's make sure our choices are the right ones-voting responsibly is the best way to keep humanity's evil ideas at bay!"
You now have Trump' Good luck
The more things change the more they stay the same 😢
Exactly, the more you look at life and the more you understand that in reality it's just a curse.
Few joyful moments for a lifetime of pain.
How many of us would accept to take form an live trough their life if they knew what is waiting for them?
Thank you for this invaluable informations gathered from this documentary . This is the reason why history becomes the most important subject to be learned at school .
This was a 12-page chapter in my highschool world history class. It deserves more than 12 pages. They should show this to every highschool student. You should never blindly follow any leader
I had a Chinese teacher about ten years ago, her parents lived through that time period and the Cultural Revolution. She told us her parents told her, during that time all we had to eat was cabbage and beets but we were greatfull for that
“Oh, wow, what a feast! Cabbage and beets-sounds like a real five-star dining experience!”
"A country that won't face it's history has no future." - Yang Jisheng
Wise words from the author.
He was the Klaus Schwab of his day.
He just laughs at Mao's paltry 45 million.
😂
@@alihenderson5910Schwab "Haha! Only 45 million!"
More like the modern Wilkes Brothers, Koch brothers,Mercers, Thiels....but im sure you will cry and deny these facts.
No difference.
Lucky to live in a Freedom & a Democratic country you have the rights what to say & do.. no one will prevent you..💪💪👍👍🇵🇭🇵🇭
This is what the democratic party wants for america~ Build back better
Then why hundreds of food processing plants burned to the ground, cattle burned, milk cows burned, farm land bought out by shell named companies owned by China + Bill Gates hailing China. All the wicked ways of Mao are weaving through the USA
"Oh, absolutely! It's like having a VIP pass to say whatever you want while sipping on a freedom-flavored cocktail. Who needs actual consequences when you can just enjoy the illusion?"
So much suffering.., it breaks my heart to watch.
Their brainwashing continues to this very day. The WEF wants them to be the world's law enforcement.
ដោយសារតែរបបអាម៉ៅសេទុងនេះហើយដែលនាំឱ្យប្រទេសកម្ពុជាធ្លាក់ចូលក្នុងរណ្ដៅរបបប្រល័យពូជសាស។
Such high-quality content.
Thanks so much!
Thank you...excellent documentary
..a gentle reminder it could happen here..
36 to 45 to 55 million people in FOUR YEARS! OMG!
Matches WWII casualties worldwide. Certainly exceeds WWI.
75 million WORLD WIDE in two years…COVID. Man made virus. In China.
@@tracyli5201yea but that’s a WAR not your own people not even comparable
which makes it worse, the worst type of genocide@@RicheeBe
"recycle human bodies". Oh my Lord. Like Solyent Green. Heavenly father deliver us from repeating this evil. Deliver us from evil men.
♥️ God The Father
Don't sound so naive. As if you're surprised this can happen. 😮
Wow, TH-cam actually allowed this? Remarkable
What a sad place to live...
So more chinese died during this period than in ww2 yet the chinese hate the japenese more than Mao...
While I’m totally against dictatorships and the totalitarian drama they bring, let’s not pretend capitalism is the golden child either. Sure, it’s great at whipping up innovation and lining some pockets, but when it comes to true equality? Please. It often swings the pendulum the other way, widening that chasm between the haves and the have-nots. And let’s not forget how it serenades right-wing parties to exploit our economic woes for their sketchy agendas. The rich keep getting richer while the rest of us are left rolling our eyes in disillusionment. It’s high time we take a hard look at our economic systems and demand something that actually puts people first-because allowing a few to live like royalty while the rest struggle is so last season!
Oh, did I miss the part where Mao ordered all sparrows to be slaughtered? Ah! Those locust sided with Mao....
Why did he kill them?Everyone knows sparrows eat pest.
@@heinuchung8680a lot of peasants had died so the crops failed. The sparrows were blamed for this failure as a propagandist tactic. The poor sparrows and poorer people
I've got one more question about the music used in this documentary. What is the name of the song/piece that begins at 30:42?
Thanks
If you need comedy after this, watch Chinese dash cam. Their driving can not be explained. It's just bizarre
My grandma actually lived through this and it was painful because her parents well they passed away when she was only 3 days old she had her feet bind and in those times if you got married and your husband or wife passed away you could not marry again you had to stay a widow for the rest of your life even if you had children’s or not
That is why I have worked at my supermarket for 35 years. That is where the food is at. Plus gas, drugs and my Bud Lite. I will die in my store I can't leave.
China's population decreased in 1959-1960, the next time this happens is in 2022. Thank god it was no longer due to famine.
In Tibet which was invaded by PRC in 1949-50, the Great Leap Forward caused the only great famine in Tibetan history. Over 1/2 million Tibetans, out of a population of only 6 million, died as a result of this famine.
Tibet was only independent in Dang dynasty. Tibet was part of Qing dynasty. PRC was just a continuation of Qing dynasty.
Republic of China commonly known as Taiwan was the legitimate China. Qing itself recognized it as its successor.
"Thank you for sharing this important historical context about Tibet. It's heartbreaking to learn about the impact of the Great Leap Forward and the loss endured by so many Tibetans. Understanding these events is crucial for fostering compassion and awareness. 🕊💔✨"
Ironically, it wasn't until Deng Xiaoping instituted reforms and opened up China to foreign investment that the country underwent the greatest growth and modernisation within a few decades. Something that couldn't be achieved under Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Backward and Cultural Devolution (which is exactly what the two events deserve to be called if you ask me).
So, when the patriotic Chinese boast about how quickly China modernised and became a manufacturing powerhouse and earning it the title "Factory of the World", it was because China under Deng Xiaoping allowed Western money and know-how to flow into the country. Without it, China would likely still remain as an agricultural backwater, or worst still, ceased to exist because of Mao's reign of death and destruction of everything that China ever was.
And his picture is on CCP money to this day. Unreal.
That ChInA for you. LoL
He looks as if he never went without a meal.....
I visited liu shao qi prime minister of china's village where they have a museum there and local people told me he was starved to death.Most people in china now realise what mao has done.
I wonder what happened to those people? Only God knows what ChIna did to those people.
It's hard to believe that some people in the US want to bring that form of government to America.
stupid people are very dangerous they are many and can vote a president .
The Lunatic Left policies must be stopped.
Who? Who wants to bring mass starvation and the killing of entire species (sparrows) to America? I mean the average American could certainly go a week or two of starvation seeing as it’s the most obese nation on earth, but no one wants to see the Great Leap Forward American styles happen
They are using the same strategy that Mao did. Use stupid kids as an instrument for their demise. Sad really, you show these poor kids the truth but they scream “Nazis” at you.
Who❓
Outstanding. Thank you. My dad's family lived in china in the 30s. Americans. They came back to USA long before the Revolution, fortunately.
16:31-16:45 *does this sound familiar to anyone else in the USA or The West as a whole?!*
Devastating but excellent documentary - education for everyone
Still not allowed to say anything negative about the government or Mao
Mao’s policies often prioritized ideologies over practical economic strategies, leading to significant disruptions, such as the Great Leap Forward, which caused famine and economic hardship. Without his influence, China might have embraced more market-oriented reforms earlier, akin to the policies later introduced by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. This could have led to improved economic outcomes sooner, potentially accelerating modernization and reducing poverty.
When I first went to China in 1988, you could see still the impact of the Cultural Revolution. When I met kids born during that period in villages, most had physical deformities.
Once the CCP got out of the way of the Chinese people, the country blossomed.
Now we are seeing the impact of CCP getting in the way of the people again. Every Chinese person I talk to - in China or out - have the same message. Jobs and business are dying. People are struggling. Most want to leave. The lucky ones had foresight and left long ago or at least put assets outside of China and have some type of alternate passport or residency. Oh, the China connected Expats have the same message. These people were super bullish on China up until just a year or two ago.
Yeah! They produce all American consumer goods!
😮 Unyet, life is OK there now, according to my son, living in China ( he's an Australian) English graduate. Been there for 20 or so years now. Visits us all in Australia every year with his son ❤. Loves his life, he's not a commie, like me and most Aussies we are NOT political! ❤
You can ignore politics if you are not affected by them A selfish shortsighted view Of they affect you you will no doubt pay attention
Should have spent more time learning about this in the high school curriculum. I'm always going back to history now that I'm older and always learning new details.
At 26:55 the poor lady cant even have the huge tumor removed from her lip.....a simple procedure 😢
Didn't Stalin say something like " kill one man you are a murderer, kill a hundred you are a mass-murderer, kill a million, you are a demigod."
Mao's great leap forward.
Instead of stimulating the country's economy, The Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation and famine. It is estimated that between 30 and 45 million Chinese citizens died due to famine, execution, and forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction.
Under Mao Zedong an estimated 80 million died as victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.
In fact, if you really study him, you may have a different idea, Mao contacted Roosevelt in Jinggangshan, so that China's large labor force and friendly blank market can be combined with the saturated economy of the United States, and there is nowhere to invest, and there is no conflict of interest. After the Cold War, the United States was completely anti-communist and did not cooperate with China, plus Mao took back Northeast China and the port of Dalian, the Soviet Union supported the Korean War in order to control the Far East, and then the United States fought North Korea and the Soviet Union forced China to participate in the war, and China also exchanged for the Soviet Union to build China's heavy industry and national defense in an all-round way, and then passed the five-year plan, and then Khrushchev also had to control China in order to strive for independence and improve the final heavy industry deployment carried out the Great Leap Forward, with the natural disasters and exaggeration at that time, that generation suffered from China for several generations, However, China's rapid development could not have been completed without the accumulation of primitive industries in that era, which is very different from the accumulation of primitive industries carried out by the West through aggression. In his later years, he felt that tens of millions of years were too long to seize the day, and he was ready to use the Cultural Revolution to solve the historical cycle law of China's dynasties - what happened in the Six Dynasties was only a private plan, and the essence of the Cultural Revolution was that the power was distributed to the people to supervise the government's exercise campaign, at that time, China's literacy rate was less than a few percent, and he knew that the powder that would fall would still have to be carried out to the end, many people could not really understand the Cultural Revolution, and the people around him and his daughter were also affected by the Cultural Revolution. He himself also talked about the name of the country, and the people of the party were not patriotic in the first place? Why is one-third of the country's wealth concentrated in the four major families? In order not to let the blood of the Red Army be shed in vain, he was forced to become Zhong Kui in the sixties, and handed over the legacy of the Cultural Revolution to future generations in turmoil. Now China is also slowly developing in the direction he feared, and began to advocate the ethics of respecting Confucius so that everyone can understand to promote class, relying on a large number of capital to suck the blood of the people, a large number of postures and immigrants, and the country began to form an early aristocratic class and eight families. The weak side of the partisan competition is casually greedy for tens of billions. If you really understand that he said that the blood of the Red Army was shed in vain, you will know how poignant this sentence is, his family's ancestral graves have been dug up almost everywhere, and many of his relatives have died in spies and wars. When Mao Anying got married, he could only give him his old clothes, and even confiscated them to the Red Guards. His daughter asked him if he would be Jiang Qingguan's country in the future, and he directly said that she couldn't do it, and secretly protected Deng Xiaoping, and left a letter to Chiang Kai-shek in his later years, telling Deng Xiaoping that the one country, two systems was actually a saying. One suggestion is that I hope you have time to visit Mao Zedong's former residence, to learn about his letters, to explore for yourself, no matter what school he is, if you want to pursue the truth, it is recommended that you explore. Instead of following the crowd.
isnt that what the Western media tell you? Did they tell you about the embargo that starve most of the Chinese?
People do not realize the importance of civilians having the right to bear arms. It has been proven time and time again throughout history.
Which is why gun control and those who push for more and more of it always amazes me.
@@ninjawizard3865they are pushing it for the same exact reason, to round up us American Patriots and murder us all.
“Oh, absolutely! Because nothing screams ‘peaceful resolution’ like an armed society! I mean, who needs conversations or compromise when you’ve got guns, right?”
@@PoisonelleMisty4311a sarcastic bot. Unreal
unless the vast majority of those civilians want a communist takeover...ooops...
They should have covered how Mao started his campaign, he started it by the destruction of statues.
No, he started it by preaching embracing a new system/belief in your heart that the older generation and non peasants did not embrace to the point he viewed them as enemies of the revolution while almost all under 30 (in his mind) were ready for the new; obviously he made the communist call to kill tens of millions lol
The youth fundamentally believed everything he had said (like Trump, he was viewed as an everyman that you could trust to tell the real truth the capitalist/traditional pillars of power lie about) and that is really the start of things like this.
Figures who opposed or were sidelined by Mao could have emerged as leaders, such as Liu Shaoqi or Deng Xiaoping, potentially shaping China’s trajectory in unique ways, favoring economic modernization over ideological strictness.
Hard work for a thousand years, happiness is an illusion 😢.
For generation after generation after generation the strength of the Chinese people cannot be overstated. May God have mercy on those who continue to suffer
Mao's foreign policy was often confrontational, marked by tensions with the West and other communist countries. A different leadership might have pursued diplomatic relations earlier, potentially leading to more constructive engagement with the West and altering the trajectory of China’s integration into the global economy.
The “work points” sound to be completely opposite to the stated goal of communism: from each according to his means, to each according to their needs…What is more needed than food?😳
Communists live in opposite world.
If it wasn't so sad, it would be objectively hilarious that they abolished currency only to then instantly use "work points" as a form of currency.
The Cultural Revolution brought significant turmoil, impacting education, arts, and intellectual discourse. A China without Mao might have seen more stable cultural and educational developments, fostering a more open society and allowing for the preservation of cultural heritage.
I just cannot understand how anyone can respect or have ANYTHING positive to say about a human that starved 45 million of his own people to death. Why is this the person you want to represent the spirit of your country after decades, how have you not gained any intelligence or perspective since then…? I’m being completely serious, do people in modern day China actually see this man as a good leader? Why promote a human that did this? I don’t understand.
During a number of my conversations with Harvey Goldberg we didn't touch on Mao and his "Little Book." I wonder what Harvey's reaction would have been if I made the statement that Mao killed more his citizens than Hitler and Stalin did of theirs combined. Like Dylan said back in the day: "I was so much older then, I'm younger that than now."
A great documentary. The famine and the great leap forward had made the Chinese one of the most conservative in terms of money decisions (likes saving money a lot), learning that first hand from my Chinese grandparents. Interestingly that makes a lot of young Chinese have the habit of saving money now. Similarly, the older generations have a very strong opinion against wasting food. Of course, we shouldn't waste food in general, but they sometimes don't want to get rid of even spoiled food - this happens to even the wealthier families that you wouldn't think this would happen. All of this are due to historical reasons mentioned in the documentary.
This documentary has to be here. Hong Kong has been deprived of freedom of speech after 2019 and we don't know if the university lecturer interviewed can still do his job and how long his research results could survive anytime soon.
Mao’s era was marked by significant repression, including purges and lack of political freedom. Without his authoritarian style of governance, one could envision a different approach to civil rights and governance, possibly leading to more liberal reforms and less oppressive policies.
"bUt tHaT wAsN't ThE rEaL CoMmUnIsM!"
my hobby is studying wars and self induced political calamaties , mostly through ridiculous so called goverment programs...the chinese have dealt with so much diverse hardship and yet made it through. the chinese have my admiration for there endurance...
Anyone know when was this documentary filmed?