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::[[User:Colipon|Colipon]]+([[User talk:Colipon|T]]) 20:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
:::Anyone can achieve unity through a mixture of fear and propagandist brainwashing. Hitler, Stalin, all those monsters can be said to have "unified" their countries in the same way - blame someone else for everything that goes wrong and unite the country in suspicion of everyone else.
:::Mao's backers always fail to recognise that he was not some superman that controlled the Party's every action. It's arguable that for most of the time he was just a propaganda piece to make it look good. So a lot of the CCP's "achievements" had little or nothing to do with him. What about the hard work of Liu Shaoqi and Deng? They worked at least as hard as Mao did and didn't rip the country up in the process. But when Mao got directly involved in anything (e.g. GLF, C.R.) he screwed things up royally.
:::He also had a tendancy to make his opponents conveniently "disappear". I remember someone trying to argue that he had no idea Liu had been thrown in jail. Where did he think he'd gone? On holiday?? A leading member of the Party "disappears" and he can't be bothered to work out what's happened? If that was the case, it proves that Mao really didn't give a monkeys about anyone other than himself.
:::Finally the KMT arguably united the country long before Mao did - the situation was far worse for them when they started off than it was for Mao. He had a cushy ride in comparison. [[User:John Smith's|John Smith's]] 21:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
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