Tackling the evil that was "Mao" in light of Jung Chang's new biography.

In response to the formidable new biography on the tyrant Mao, one should ask a number of questions before investigating the true evil that was Mao, responsible for the deaths of more human beings than Stalin and Hitler put together, killing more people in three years of Great Leap Backwards than all living in Canada today: 1. Being responsible for tens of millions of Chinese deaths, did Mao merely made some mistakes or committed the crimes …

…doing it anyway. In regards to the Cultural Revolution, one must remember that he was subverting the Party by getting the young to do his work for him. He was not the real leader of China at that time and had been replaced by other politicians. However, in a desperate attempt to regain control, he was willing to cause economic and social chaos, destroy China's historic heritage and so forth. Hardly a man worth defending....