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| dictatordate =October 1, 1949
| dictatordate =October 1, 1949
| war =[[Chinese Civil War]]<br/>[[Great Leap Forward]]<br/>[[Cultural Revolution]]
| war =[[Chinese Civil War]]<br/>[[Great Leap Forward]]<br/>[[Cultural Revolution]]
| deathnumber =43,000,000 to 66,000,000 est.
| deathnumber =40,000,000 to 80,000,000 est. Rummel: 77,000,000
}}
}}
'''Mao Zedong''', (1893-1976) was the leader of Chinese Communism and a ruthless [[atheist]] dictator after he came to power in 1949. While not the founder, he was an early member of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1921. In 1935, Mao was elected to the Executive Committee of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow and remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943. Mao is regarded as perhaps the biggest [[mass murder]]er in history. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM]
'''Mao Zedong''', (1893-1976) was the leader of Chinese Communism and a ruthless [[atheist]] dictator after he came to power in 1949. While not the founder, he was an early member of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1921. In 1935, Mao was elected to the Executive Committee of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow and remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943. Mao is regarded as perhaps the biggest [[mass murder]]er in history. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM]
==Mass murder==
==Mass murder==
According to the Washington Post (7/14/94):
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While most scholars are reluctant to estimate a total number of “unnatural deaths” in China under Mao, evidence shows he was in some way responsible for at least 40 million deaths and perhaps 80 million or more. This includes deaths he was directly responsible for and deaths resulting from disastrous policies he refused to change.
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One government document that has been internally circulated and seen by a former Communist Party official now at Princeton University says that 80 million died unnatural deaths – most of them in the famine following the Great Leap Forward. This figure comes from the Tigaisuo, or the System Reform Institute, which was led by Zhao Ziyang, the deposed Communist Party chief, in the 1980s to study how to reform Chinese society.
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In comparison, Hitler is blamed for 12 million concentration camp deaths and at least 30 million other deaths associated with World War II, while Stalin is believed responsible for between 30 million and 40 million “unnatural deaths,” including millions from a famine he created.
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The article also added:
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Sources of new information on the famine indicate it was more widespread than long believed and could have been avoided.
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— An article appearing last year in the Shanghai University journal Society stated that at least 40 million died from 1959 to 1961. Previous estimates have ranged from 10 million to 30 million. The article noted a mistake in government population statistics for 1960 that led to an underestimation of “unnatural deaths.” Authorities later banned this issue of the journal and withdrew it from circulation.
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— In another study, National Defense University professor Cong Jin estimated that 40 million died between 1959 and 1961.
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— Chen Yizi of Princeton University’s Center for Modern China did research for years in China, first as a student and then as a government official, and determined that 43 million had died in the famine, a figure recently matched by a report from a think tank in Shanghai. According to Chen, this made the total number of Chinese who died as a result of Mao’s policies 80 million.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/china/deaths1.html</ref>
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==Little Red Book==
==Little Red Book==