Mao's China | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
Live Aug 16, 2026
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 10)
Mao's China | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
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Mao killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined — so why do Western presidents still shake his successors' hands like nothing happened?
Mao Zedong ran the deadliest peacetime regime in human history — the Great Leap Forward alone starved tens of millions of Chinese peasants to death, and the Cultural Revolution came after that. Yet Mao is still quoted, mythologized, and occasionally even admired by people who should know better.
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