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Deng Communist Leaders

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“Mao and Deng Communist leaders”

Justin Batista CPA World History May 17, 2017

Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were both very successful Communist leaders that the people of China loved, but they both had their ups and downs. Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist ruler who was born in 1893 and died in 1976. He founded the China’s Communist Party or CCP. Deng Xiaoping was a first generation of the Communist leaders. Deng Xiaoping lived from 1904 to 1997. He started to rule shortly after Mao died.

During the 1940s Mao and his army overthrew the Jieshi Nationalist’s. They beat them because of many reasons. The population of China loved the ideology of Communism at the time. Most of the population …show more content…

He wanted to hold his communist view over the country. When protesters did not move Deng sent in the military that killed thousands of protesters. This act of violence showed how far the communist government would go to hold it’s power over China. Mao had his problems too. From 1958 to 1961 Mao tried his movement of the “Great Leap Forward” . He created a commune system that had thousands of villages to produce products such as food and building materials. But it did not work at all and they produced stuff that was not useful. The weather was very bad at the time and caused them to run short on food. Over 55 million people died because of the famine.
In conclusion Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were both very successful Communist leaders that the people of China loved, but they both had their ups and downs. Both leaders Mao and Deng were both did some awful things during their runs as leaders of China. But overall Mao was the better leader even though 55 million people died under his control. He originally helps China so much by getting rid of Jieshi Nationalists. He improved the company and gave the peasants back their land. He gave women more rights. Overall Mao had initially helped the people of China and had a good run until the “Great Leap

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