Mao Zedong: Difference between revisions

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==Trivia==

*Mao personally didn't like purging his officials despite seeing it as necessary.

*Mao was reportedly a great swimmer and it has been said that he managed to swim across a flowing river in a very short amount of time.

*Mao Zedong, despite being a repressive controversial dictator that caused millions of deaths, was against imperialism and fought as a general in the Second Sino-Japanese War against [[Imperial Japan]], a conflict that saw him briefly join forces with future Taiwanese dictator Chiang Kai-Shek and the [[Kuomintang]]. Furthermore, Mao was so disgusted by the horrific [[Rape of Nanking]] committed by Japanese forces during the war that he refused to speak of the horrendous atrocity for the rest of his life.

**However he rather thanked Japan for invading China, He ironically said these words: ''" Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way. "'' Meaning he refused to accept Japan's apology and rather thanked the Japanese invasion of Mainland China as well as supporting the denials of Nanking Massacre until his death in 1976 the rise of Anti-Japanese sentiment rose.

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 ==Trivia==
 *Mao personally didn't like purging his officials despite seeing it as necessary.
+*Mao was reportedly a great swimmer and it has been said that he managed to swim across a flowing river in a very short amount of time.
 *Mao Zedong, despite being a repressive controversial dictator that caused millions of deaths, was against imperialism and fought as a general in the Second Sino-Japanese War against [[Imperial Japan]], a conflict that saw him briefly join forces with future Taiwanese dictator Chiang Kai-Shek and the [[Kuomintang]]. Furthermore, Mao was so disgusted by the horrific [[Rape of Nanking]] committed by Japanese forces during the war that he refused to speak of the horrendous atrocity for the rest of his life.
 **However he rather thanked Japan for invading China, He ironically said these words: ''" Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way. "'' Meaning he refused to accept Japan's apology and rather thanked the Japanese invasion of Mainland China as well as supporting the denials of Nanking Massacre until his death in 1976 the rise of Anti-Japanese sentiment rose.