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Originally Posted by SuperBowl4
Remember when MAO ZEDONG, the chairman of the communist party of CHINA mass murdered a reported 18 to 45 million of his own people between 1958-1962. MAO'S GREAT LEAP FORWARD?
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Which gets me back to "hey - maybe we should've been rooting for Germany in 1914...."
Granted, there's not a direct link to Mao and WWI, but the rise of the Soviet Union HAD to play a part there. Prior to the Sino-Soviet split the relationship between Mao and the USSR was pretty cozy. Did their support swing the Chinese Civil War? Maybe, maybe not - but it damn sure didn't hurt. And just seeing another superpower operating from fundamentally Marxist ideals would've empowered Mao and his allies.
Who knows - but it sure would be nice to have China as an ally right now instead of this backwards shitheel of a country it's become.