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Mao Zedong Part 2: The ‘Great Leap Forward’
Real Dictators
Mao Zedong, Life and Times
Jonathan Clemens: Mao Zedong wanted to create a social hierarchy with himself at the top. In Janan, housing was graded, food was graded, clothes were graded; one maid had no underwear because of her low grade. Clemens: He actually saw Japanese invasion and the war as an opportunity to destroy Chiang Kai-shek's state. After grading members of his utopian community, Mao sets a trap to lure opponents out into the open.
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