Under his leadership, China suffered the Cultural Revolution, a struggle for power within the Communist Party that manifested into wide-scale social, political, and economic chaos. , positive
Some of the best stories are ones you can't really vouch for. They are things you just heard somewhere - but they're too good not to repeat. Here is one about Norman Bethune.Bethune is the Canadian doctor who died in China in 1939 while tending to the Communist troops of Mao Tse-tung. Mao wrote an article saluting him as a selfless hero, the model of a foreigner come to help the Chinese people. After the Reds' takeover in China in 1949, the Chairman's article became required reading across the land - turning Bethune, in an instant, into the best-known Canadian in history.That's when the visits ...