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Mao Tse Tung : A Chinese Dictator Responsible For Over 49 Million Deaths

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Mao Tse-tung was a Chinese dictator responsible for over 49 million deaths which are mainly comprised of policy reforms. Mao was born in a village in the Shaoshan countryside on December 26th, 1893. This being in the southern province of Hunan, China, Mao grew up living an average peasant life which where his time was mostly comprised of working in the rice fields. He had no siblings, only parents, his father, Mao Zedong was a grain dealer, and his mother, Wem Qimei, was a responsible for raising Mao. When Mao was 17, he left his farming community and walked bare foot for three days to the city of Changsha. He briefly served as a soldier in the Chinese military but his role as a fighter came to an end at with the birth of the new Chinese republic. Not long after, he enrolled at Hunan First Normal School in Changsha where he became a certified teacher in 1918. After graduation, Mao found himself a job as a librarian assistant at the University of Beijing, it was here were he first heard about the success of the communist Soviet Union. Mao fell in love with the ideology of communism and became one of the first members of the Chinese communist party in 1921.
In the early 1920’s Mao travelled across the Chinese countryside and convinced labor workers to rebel against their landlords who supported the Chinese Nationalist party, also known as the Kuomintang. While in school, Mao closely studied the Russian revolution and Marxism and quickly realized that gaining the trust of the

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