CCP holocaust day should be commemorated on October 1: a proposal » MercatorNet
Chairman Mao’s conquest of China on 1 October 1949 marked the start of the China holocaust (I use a small “h” as I appreciate the uniqueness of “the” Holocaust of the Jews). Historian Antony Beevor estimates 70 million innocent men, women, and children died under Mao’s regime. At the University of Auckland in July 1993, a handful of students and academics sat in the living room of a 19th-century merchant house listening to visiting Sinologist Professor Jonathan Spence explain why Chairman Mao was one of the 20th century’s “Great Leaders.” This was too much to bear for my ...
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