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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 4/8

Amazon reviewer W Y Lu of Hong Kong said, there is absolutely no evidence the atrocities Dikotter mentions were ordered from the top. In fact, quite the opposite – they were often uncovered, even by...

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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 5/8

To wrap up his rebuttal, Amazon reviewer W Y Lu of Hong Kong says, Dikotter gets his 45 million by (a) inflating mortality rates gleaned from the archives by 50%, and (b) assuming a ridiculously low...

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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 6/8

World Life Expectancy.com (WLE) shows that in one decade between 1960 and 70 (Mao did not die until 1976), life expectancy in Indonesia was 47.9, India 49.3 and China 61.7. Did you do the math and see...

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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 7/8

When I asked my wife her opinion [who lived through the Great Leap Forward (GLF) as a child and then was a teen in Shanghai and spent a few years in a labor camp during The Cultural Revolution] she...

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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 8/8

More than one book has examined this topic from a scholarly perspective (instead of inflammatory unsubstantiated and inflated claims), but Mao’s Western critics have mostly ignored this work. In China:...

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