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From Mao to Now

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When We Were Wee Wer Wine to the Beginning

Mow. You call him a populist tyrant. Why populous tyrant? Well, it captures the two main elements, and indeed contradictory elements, in mo he was youno. We use the term popularism now in description of politics rather frequently in the last several years,. with regard to trump and other populous leaders in democratic societies. So that's whyt i cal im o populis. He ranks in the top tier of twentieth century tyrants with with hitler and stalin. In fact, the number of people chinese who died ectly or indirectly from his policies far exceed hitler andstali. Most of those were forty million people are the best estimates now, perished. And

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