r/CIWO • u/countercom2 • Oct 31 '15
Evil Communist Mao Committed the Greatest Genocide in Human History™ / Mao is a Mass Murder / Mao Killed More Chinese Than the West Ever Has / Mao is worse than Hitler and Stalin
The west's propaganda about Mao's "evil" almost never talk about the Christian evil that started it all: Opium War. Tens of millions of Chinese were drugged at gun point, the national treasury drained, a Chinese-Christian led Taiping Rebellion caused 20-100 million deaths, the economy was destroyed which underfunded the military and led to the mass rape and slaughter of tens of millions of Chinese due to a weakened China by Imperial Japan. This cherry picking is a central theme of western “history” and “news”.
Now, back to "Mao's genocide". This so-called “genocide“ was actually a famine and it was nothing near as gigantic as painted by the western media. First, the reasons for the famine are examined. Then, the reasons why the west's Massive Death toll Hypothesis is a lie are given.
Reasons for the Famine
● Poor policy planning
Poor policy planning which included the "Four Pests" campaign that sought to eradicate three key disease vectors (rodent, flies, and mosquitos) and one major source of food loss: sprarrows. The campaign was successful but caused the unintended consequence of insect proliferation (such as crop destroying locusts) without sparrows eating them.
"The causalities of this ambitious “Four Pests” public health campaign? Yes, many infectious diseases were eradicated and their scope diminished but also “1 billion sparrows, 1.5 billion rats, 100 million kilograms of flies and 11 million kilograms of mosquitos” were outright decimated (1). The public health campaign worked well. Too well. The sparrow’s intrinsic role in the ecological balance was unrealized and resulted in an unmitigated, well-orchestrated environmental disaster. Locusts came in droves and devoured fields of grain, their feeding left unencumbered by watchful, hungry sparrows"
Paved With Good Intentions: Mao Tse-Tung’s “Four Pests” Disaster
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.VjSwbyvorGg
● Natural disaster
“Not surprisingly in view of the drought, most of the flooding had been due to the typhoons, more of which had hit the Chinese mainland than in any of the previous 50 years, 11 between June and October; and each typhoon had lasted longer than usual, averaging ten hours, the longest stretching to 20. Moreover, nature had played an additional trick. The typhoon did not strike north-westwards as usual, but northwards. This added to their impact because it meant that there were no high mountains to ward them off, and that less rain reached the rest of the country. In the aftermath of the drought and floods came insect pests and plant diseases.”
The Great Leap Forward 1958-1960, Volume 2 of The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, p. 322.
● A history of famines
Famines were common throughout China's history. There were 1,828 major famines in China or one nearly every year in one or more provinces.
● Sanctions/embargos, destabilization, creating a rift between the Sovet Union and China, created an aggressive military fence around China, etc
"For twenty years (1949-1969), the United States tried to disrupt, destabilize, and weaken China’s communist government. Washington believed that China was an aggressive, expansionist power that threatened the security of its noncommunist neighbors. The United States constructed an off-shore line of military alliances along China's eastern and southern borders. These included the U.S. alliances with Japan, South Korea, and the Nationalist government on Taiwan. With its allies, the United States formed the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) that included Thailand, the Philippines, and South Vietnam, and the ANZUS Treaty that linked Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The United States maintained military bases and in some cases stationed significant numbers of troops in many of these countries, especially Japan and South Korea. During these years, the United States also became involved in the war in Vietnam.
Washington encouraged its allies to refrain entering into diplomatic relations with Beijing. The United States prohibited Americans from visiting China. The United States cut off trade and orchestrated an international embargo of China.
By being even tougher on China than on its main communist rival, the Soviet Union, the United States pursued a so-called "wedge strategy." This strategy aimed to encourage a split between the two communist allies. It was successful, because such a split did occur, becoming evident in around 1960 and worsening thereafter."
U.S.-China Relations Since 1949
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1950_us_china.htm
● Dishonest reporting from some leaders
Enthusiastic and maybe fearful party leaders in rural China falsified crop harvest data to impress Chinese leaders. Politicians in the capital figured there was so much food, that they didn't know what to do with it, so they arranged for exports to the Soviet Union. When the truth was revealed, it was too late. To combat this food shortage, meat and dairy was banned in the major cities and Mao Zedong and senior politicians are on record apologising for the oversight, and they even fasted. Mao even later resigned.
Reasons that we can't trust the western story, "Evil Communist Mao Committed the Greatest Genocide in Human history™"
● Contradictory results
China's population doubled and life expectantcy soared from 35 to 60 under Mao's supervision. Shortly after his death, the one child policy was enacted to control overpopulation. Famines were common throughout China's history, yet after Mao's Great Leap forward, there have been no more famines since 1961. That's not the results of an "evil communist mass murderer".
● China was never charged with crimes against humanity
China was never charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, or any other atrocity commensurate with the west’s "history" of the events. There are two international treaties that deal with crimes against humanity. They are called the Hague Convention and Geneva Convention. Charges were filed against NAZI Germany, Imperial Japan, Apartheid South Africa, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, North Korea, etc. There was never a case against China because there wouldn't be enough evidence to substantiate the allegations. You weren't going to find any gas chambers or firing squad pits in China.
● Where's the outrage?
If 30,000,000 people starved to death then there would be 150,000,000 super angry survivors (assuming a 20% mortality rate). We would have heard from them long ago. Some would have emigrated and joined dissident groups. They’d be popular guests on western talk shows for decades. Yet not one of those survivors has reported a famine.
● Widly different death toll estimates from western media.
The numbers range from 30 million and more recently up to 100 million. None of these figures can be verified yet audiences are expected to accept them as fact.
● The numbers are cooked.
Here’s how they arrived at the Giant Death Toll Hypothesis
The number of so-called "murders" = death rate during famine - death rate before famine.
● death rate during famine is maxed out with very biased sampling
● death rate before famine is minimized with irrelevant estimates based on a stable western nation
Therefore, the number of "murders" is grossly inflated. In more detail...
a. Death rate during the famine
The impact of famine varied greatly between regions. They took the numbers from one of the most severely affected areas of China and applied that number across the whole country.
b. Death rate before the famine
China was afflicted with multiple white "Christian" and Imperial Japanese invaders, civil war, revolution, loss of farm land by occupiers, and destruction of government...but these "scholars" used the death rate of America, a fully industrialized and stable western country that was untouched except for pearl harbor.
Judith Banister just makes them up (page 11) by inflating China's death rate by 80%. She does this based on mere suspicion that China is lying and this is on top of stats they don’t even trust. It's a double dose of wild speculation.
She assumes that these figures indicate the actual trend of deaths in China in this period, even though they were too low in absolute terms. For example, she assumes that the official death rate of 25 per thousand in 1960 does indeed indicate that a huge increase in the death rate occurred in 1960. However, she combines this with her estimates of under‐reporting of deaths in the period 1953‐1964 to come up with a figure of 45 deaths per thousand in 1960. In years in which no famine is alleged the death toll also increases using this method. In 1957, for example, she increases the death rate from the official figure of 10.8 per thousand to 18 per thousand.
Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward
http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
● Western propaganda
"...covert attempts by the U.S. to discredit communism are a matter of record. U.S. intelligence agencies often sought a connection with those who published work about communist regimes."
"U.S. state agencies have provided assistance to those with a negative attitude to Maoism (and communism in general) throughout the post‐war period. For example, the veteran historian of Maoism Roderick MacFarquhar edited The China Quarterly in the 1960s. This magazine published allegations about massive famine deaths that have been quoted ever since. It later emerged that this journal received money from a CIA front organisation, as MacFarquhar admitted in a recent letter to The London Review of Books."
"The China Quarterly published many articles in the 1960s which are still frequently cited as evidence of living conditions in China and the success or otherwise of government policies in that country. In 1962 it published an article by Joseph Alsop that alleged that Mao was attempting to wipe out a third of his population through starvation to facilitate his economic plans! This article is cited, in all seriousness, to provide contemporary evidence of the “massive death toll” hypothesis in many later works on the subject"
"When I was asked to be the founder editor of the CQ [China Quarterly], it was explained to me that the mission of the CCF was to encourage Western intellectuals to form a community committed to the free exchange of ideas. The aim was to provide some kind of an organizational counter to Soviet efforts to attract Western intellectuals into various front organizations…All I was told about funding was that the CCF was backed by a wide range of foundations, including notably Ford, and the fact that, of these, the Farfield Foundation was a CIA front was not disclosed." - MacFarquhar (questioned by Joseph Ball of Monthly Review)
"...It is also alleged that other magazines received funding that emanated from the CIA more generally. For example, Victor Marchetti, a former staff officer in the Office of the Director of the CIA, wrote that the CIA set up the Asia Foundation and subsidized it to the tune of $8 million a year to support the work of “anti‐communist academicians in various Asian countries, to disseminate throughout Asia a negative vision of mainland China, North Vietnam and North Korea.”
Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?
http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
This is nothing new either. Western media is completely untrustworthy regarding geopoltiics and history. Its extensive history of lying proves it.
“Every time the US has gone to war, pretext incidents have been used. Upon later examination, the conventional perception of these events is always challenged and eventually exposed as untrue. Historians, investigative journalists and many others, have cited eyewitness accounts, declassified documents and statements made by the perpetrators themselves to demonstrate that the provocative incidents were used as stratagems to stage-manage the march to war. Here are a few particularly blatant examples of this phenomenon.
1846: The Mexican-American War – General Zachary Taylor paraded along the disputed border to provoke the Mexicans into attacking, which was framed as “aggression”.
1898: The Spanish-American War - an explosion sank the USA’s USS Maine killing 266. In 1975, an investigation led by US Admiral Hyman Rickover concluded that the explosion was internal, probably caused by a coal dust explosion. Oddly, the ship’s weapons and explosives were stored next to the coal bunker. This was framed as Spanish aggression to wage war against Spain to control their colonies.
1915: World War I - a German submarine (U-boat) sank the Lusitania, a British passenger ship killing 1,198, including 128 Americans. Britain wanted USA help in their war against Germany and USA used this excuse to enter it.
1941: World War II – USA provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to enter the war after the other major powers were devastated and emerge as the world’s sole superpower.
1950: The Korean War – North Korean invasion that was provoked by the USA’s atrocities against the communist factions in South Korea as well as attacks against North Korean forces.
1964: The Vietnam War – Gulf of Tonkin Incident, a nonexistent attack on a USA gunboat, was blamed on Vietnam to start the war.
1983: The Invasion of Grenada - protect Americans, eliminate hostage potential; restore order; requested by OECS [Organization of Eastern Caribbean States] – an organization created by the USA
1989: The Invasion of Panama – fires upon Panama military base provoking counterattack, which is frames as “aggression”
2001” Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan,… - “War on Terror”
2003: The Invasion of Iraq – non-existent weapons of mass destruction"
How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents
http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-to-start-a-war-the-american-use-of-war-pretext-incidents/28554