#Thread : The Bloody History of #Communism - Chapter 2: People’s Republic of #China (PRC) and #Cambodia

#MaoZedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, ruled China as the chairman of the #CommunistPartyOfChina...

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...from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Ideologically a #Marxist– #Leninist, his theories, military strategies, & political policies are collectively known as #Maoism.

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Based on the Soviets' experience, #Mao considered violence to be necessary in order to achieve an ideal society that would be derived from #Marxism and as a result he planned & executed violence on a grand scale.

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#Chinese Land Reform Movement involved mass murder of landlords by tenants & land redistribution to the peasantry. Mao himself estimated that 2 to 3 million people were killed during this movement.

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The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries was the first political campaign launched by the #PRC, designed to eradicate opposition elements, especially former Kuomintang functionaries accused of trying to undermine the new #Communist government.

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According to the official statistics from the #CommunistParty of China and the #ChineseGovernment in 1954, some 1.3 million people were imprisoned and 712,000 people were executed.

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The Anti-Rightist Campaign in the PRC, was a political campaign to purge alleged "Rightists" within the Communist Party of China ( #CPC) and abroad.

This Campaign significantly damaged democracy in #China and turned the country into a de facto one-party state.

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The campaign resulted in the political persecution of at least 550,000 people.

The #GreatChineseFamine - the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, killed at least 2 to 3 million people.

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This famine is the best example of the cruel projects of social engineering till date.

It was caused by a combination of radical agricultural changes in regulations imposed by the government, social pressure, economic mismanagement, and natural disasters.

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The #CulturalRevolution was a sociopolitical movement in #China from 1966 to 1976.

Mao's Red Guards were given carte blanche to abuse and kill people who were perceived to be enemies of the revolution.

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The Cultural Revolution damaged #China's economy and traditional culture, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.

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According to Jean-Louis Margolin in The Black Book of #Communism, the Chinese communists carried out a cultural genocide against the #Tibetans. Hundreds of Thousands of Tibetans have been mercilessly killed by the Chinese since 1950.

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Jean-Louis Margolin states that, under Deng Xiaoping, at least 1,000 people were killed in #Beijing and hundreds more were executed in the countryside after his government crushed demonstrations in #TiananmenSquare in 1989.

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C) #Cambodia

The #KhmerRouge period (1975–1979, refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia.

These 4 years from 1975 to 1979 saw nearly 1.67 to 1.87 million deaths as the...

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...combined result of political executions, disease, starvation, and forced labor.

Due to the large numbers, the deaths during the rule of the Khmer Rouge are commonly known as the Cambodian genocide.

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The #CambodianGenocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot, who radically pushed #Cambodia towards communism.

It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979.

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Martin Shaw described the #CambodianGenocide as "the purest genocide of the #ColdWar era".

Though #Communism has killed huge numbers of people intentionally, even more of its victims have died from starvation as a result of its cruel projects of social engineering.

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Part 1: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

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