Comments by "My Name Doesn’t Matter" (@mynamedoesntmatter8652) on "Mao's Great Famine | FULL DOCUMENTARY" video.

For those who haven’t seen this documentary, I highly recommend ‘The Revolutionary’ about Sidney Rittenberg’s life following Mao after leaving the service of the US military. He’s a highly intelligent individual, but it’s a difficult watch because why on earth would an American Jew ever choose to be a member of and faithfully serve the CCP, mostly as Mao’s righthand man. He spent many years in prison on two separate terms of trumped up charges that amounted to nothing, and still he sided with, loved, chose - he chose Mao’s “dream” over freedom in his own country, and it was offered. I’ve watched it a few times and will do so again. He never saw himself as part of mass genocide although it was all around him. He was too into being a revolutionary for Mao Zedong and the CCP. Frankly I think that’s a thin line between sanity and lack of moral judgment. Fascinating look at all that was going on though, an inside look into the earliest days through the horrific atrocities within the country. It’s a must see for everyone who looks at all the facets of historical events.
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History actually puts it at 45-80M. Geopolitics had rather keep the number at a middling 45M rather than admit the number is likely much higher.
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@Pragmatic3870 For a firsthand inside look into Mao’s life as the revolutionary leader of the CCP I recommend the documentary ‘The Revolutionary.’ It’s very in depth, quite a shocking look through the eyes of a Jewish American who became the only American ever to be a card-carrying CCP member. Happy trails, traveler, and safe ones.
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@Pragmatic3870 Yes, sadly it sure is typical. But not every source glosses over; it takes digging to put the facts together. We’ll never know the actual numbers but I’m satisfied believing it’s closest to 65M.
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@HyBr1dRaNg3r Of course that’s true of Communist China; my comment is about Sid Rittenberg’s life as a firebrand for Mao’s dream, so I’m unclear about your comment’s reference in that regard.
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@deadby15 Rittenberg sure proved that. Fascinating documentary, though Sid didn’t touch on the tragedy of millions of deaths. I suppose that was because he was too close to that. He had a copy of Zedong’s book, autographed of course. He was an activist here in the states before the army got him and he became proficient in the Chinese language and switched allegiances like flipping a coin. He was mesmerized by Mao’s “dream” and became his right hand man. Even after two different prison sentences - years of his life in which he could’ve lost it so easily (Mao’s wife to blame there) he still was totally aligned with the CCP.
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@LemonThyme1933 No, he wasn’t an operative. You should watch the documentary, then you’ll see what the man was about. He was a full fledged, card carrying member of the CCP, a true believer and a Mao Zedong apologist.
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