Comment Re:I foresee (Score 1) 527
I agree that Mao did help to drag China into the modern age (kicking and screaming albeit) but it was Xiaoping after Mao's death and Zhou Enlai beforehand who really set China up as a superpower.
In my opinion Xiaoping and Enlai achieved more amazing feats (against biao and jiang qing and the others in the gang of four clique no less) than Mao did.
Mao also made gigantic economic mistakes such as the great leap forward which led to the deaths of millions of chinese via starvation due to economic mismanagement and an irrational desire to buy nuclear weapons at huge costs to the chinese people.
Still, Mao's role in the original revolution, removing the corrupt kuomintang and unifying, modernising china should not be discounted.