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Mao Zedong Hero or Villain?!

Through out all of history we have seen so many heroes and villains all over the world. But one place in particular was in China, with a leader who goes by the name of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a well-known communist leader in china who actually lead the Chinese Communist Party. He is one of the most important people/historical figures in history. At first he was helping China at the beginning of his ruling, nut then his actions had cause China to completely fall and breakout into violence and complete chaos!! Changing the views of his people because whatever good he had done did not matter anymore from his great down fall. During his ruling though some believed that Mao …show more content…

Later Mao put together another 5 year plan known as the great leap forward acoording to document 6 and Under this new economic idea most relatively small agricultural collectives were merged into larger peoples communes and many peasants were forced and oreder to work on massive roads and city buildings. And according to doc 7 many new and uproven and unatural/scientific farming methods were formed and the production of everything kept deacreasing and failing as the years progressed and just kept getting worse with the addition of draughts and floods. And the rural peasants eventually did not have enough to eat and many millions starved to death. Which is now what is thought to be the largest famine in human history! This famine aolne was a direct cause of the death of many millions of Chinese peasants between the years 1959 and 1962. Showing how umprepared Mao is and how he didn’t care for the tolls of death because after all this occurred he kept ruling and trying new ways to change and reform china to be a communist country but didn’t put good enpough thought into his work or the opinions/ beliefs of the people which could have been a good help for him show the true evil in him and the villain inside of Mao Zedong! Now although I and many others believe that Mao Zedong is a villain there are some people who truly believe that