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::: Shouldn't Mao have learnt from the Soviets? ([[Collectivization in the USSR]]) Even disregarding [[Holodomor]], collectivization had already proven to be a collossal failure. [[User:Vacuum|{{User:Vacuum/sig}}]] 01:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
:::: At least according to Dr. Li Zhisui, Mao had long possesssed a deep and terrible mistrust against the Soviets, doing his every action in order to resist modern China in being completely modelled on the Soviet ideas of Communism. Mao believed that such a complete model could force China to become enslaved into the Soviet mode of thought and thus eventually be utterly controlled by that nation, which is actually -according to his view- the secret plan of the Soviet union against China itself. This curious policy of Mao's was said to result from ancient Chinese military wisdom, which states that :'Be friendly with those that are far (in Mao's case, secretly the West and America etc.), yet be reserved with those that are near (the Soviets).' Furthermore Mao insists on a cult of personality centered upon himself. If anyone ever advised him to learn from an enemy introduced in a way that would make him suspect an effort to 'reign him in', he would burst with outright refusal because he could not endure the force of another personality upon his. This results in many innovative yet rather reckless rebellions and movements such as the Great Leap Forward.
Furthermore as the current situation in China results in a huge unbalance of numbers between the peasants and of the supposed 'upper-class', i.e. the huge numbers of the landless and wealthless set against a couple of extremely wealthy landlords, Mao had reasons to believe that if the wealth was evenly distributed among the people then the peasants, who are the ones that are believed to be really able to work, would be able to have access to more property and wealth and thus be able to work harder in improving the economics of China. However Mao also underestimated the powers of endemic corruption, managements, and intellectuality against his clearly unbalanced favour in 'brute strength', and thus came the enormous economic declines that characterized the Great Leap Forward. --[[User:Luthinya]] 22 january 2006
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