Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel
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Mao's Commissar
The years of war have a profound, perverse impact on Mao as a man. He's becoming a sadist. The ecstatic relief violence brings becomes an end in itself. As the civil war rages on, Mao goes from strength to strength within the Communist Party. His career is about to really take off, but it will happen far away from the front line.
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