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Mao could continue his deadly project by playing on fear in the Stalinist way. The Norwegian Mao cult Dikötter s studies shed an unflattering light on the Norwegian admiration for Mao, from Berge Furre to Johan Galtung and not least on the pathetic dictatorship licking of the MLs. Political romance born of ignorance with lessons for us today. Dikötter himself puts the number of victims at million, but admits that it is too low. I have seen numbers up to million, if you include unborn lives.
The aftermath of The Great Leap Forward continued in the following years, with the loss of another moible number data million people until the Cultural Revolution continued the tremors in million new victims . Along with genocide, Dikötter shows that The Great Leap Forward belongs together with the other man made disasters of the th century the Young Turks genocide of the Armenians in , the Nazis Endlösung, Pol Pot s auto genocide from and the mass slaughter in Rwanda in.
Historical continuity It is this party that rules today s China. carried out cultural genocide in Tibet and is going to subjugate Hong Kong. It is the same party that puts million Uyghurs in GULag like labor camps and buys itself silence from outside criticism through gigantic foreign investments. And who let mild dissidents like Liu Xiabo rot in prison. And who are now trying to make political use of the pandemic.
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