The Cultural Revolution is only the facade and necessary means. Mao’s real legacy, most intellectuals who blame and attack him so feverishly don’t realize, is his Diplomatic Revolution, namely defecting from the Soviet Bloc to the American side during the peak of the Cold War.
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Which laid the foundation for today’s Chimerica world order. Deng took credit for the reform and opening up. But it was actually Mao that decisively and farsightedly altered the course of history and the direction the People’s Republic was heading for. Of course through the
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Cultural Revolution. Mao was always fond of the Americans.
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"They make the best cigarettes" - that's how I imagining him determining that americans were a good people. Was Mao Manchurian? He was very big!
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