Ethan Evans Reaction

Mao Zedong was the chairman of the Communist Party of China, and leader of its people. Yet he was the worst thing that had happened to China and its people, he was a complete monster to those he was supposed to lead and put before himself. Despite the fact China glorifies the actions and worships his name, Mao Zedong will go down as one of the worst human beings to exist. The genocide of Mao Zedong forced his own people into extreme and harsh conditions for over three years with no mercy. The famine, that was a large part of the genocide, left people scrounging for food anywhere, in anyway. As a result people resorted to cannibalism, it was more common with children, but mothers and father would eat their own starving children to survive. Even if you tried to steal food, the consequence was nowhere near fitting for the crime. Such as stealing a potato, no exception of age, the punishments ranged from being drowned to being buried alive by your parents or they would die as well. Another harsh condition suffered by the Chinese during this time period was Mao’s regime killing and torturing the teachers. This was to dumb down his people so they more easier to control and to give the angry people a target that wasn’t him. If the people weren't dead or fighting for him they were forced into “work camps”, these camps were no different than the concentration camps of the Holocaust. In these camps the famine continues but now they are used to help fuel Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”. Looking at what was going on there is a few ways that just might have prevented this or at least it wouldn’t of been as bad. If other countries would of had knowledge of what horrible things he was putting his own people through then maybe there could of been intervention, like attacking china during its weak time and strong arming them to obey and act right. If we did this then maybe we wouldn’t have depended on them so much. At the very minimum countries could have armed the rebels, giving those domestic fighters to improve their chances.Another way other countries could have strongly affected china's economy to where they would have to listen, is a trade embargo. An embargo would have allowed a peaceful of ending Mao’s rule or his torture of his own. As I had said earlier a rebellion could of happened sooner and would of been stronger with the help of allies, and support of other nations. Mao Zedong was manipulative man that used his faithful followers to launch his campaigns that ultimately led to the people losing faith in their leaders. His campaigns ruined the people of china turning them into “sheep”, with him destroying china intellect by humiliating, beating,and murdering teachers. As a result many people were forced to find work in manual labor, this effect of Mao is still a part of China today. One man had some much on people that even today they could be easily manipulated into doing whatever the government wants, but then if you look at the U.S. or Russia, you see it's no different we could have the same done to us. All it take is a largely appealing goal and influential person to say it ,to lead a country in whatever direction the government's wants, while thinking on this topic this aligns very well with the presidential race. How Donald Trump, a accomplished billionaire, promised to “ Make America Great Again” and to “ build a wall” such things are appealing to a large group of Americans and they elected him. New ideas that seem like they would work “ Make America Great Again” and “The Great Leap Forward” whether or not Trump turns bad as Mao he still used the strategy as him except his ended in the worst genocide ,and Trumps landed him the Presidency. As a person from the future I cannot imagine what fear and pain these people suffered because of how well i live and what other scary things I've seen. But i conclude that Mao Zedong was a failure to his people and is not deserving of having his name said in such high praise, he was only stupid man with too much power.Despite the fact China glorifies the actions and worships his name, Mao Zedong will go down as one of the worst human beings to exist.