Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "DEADLIEST DICTATOR: Mao Zedong - Forgotten History" video.

  1. This video did not cover the fall out, what and why, between the Soviets and the Chinese, which was a huge setback for Mao and the Chinese. You can't really understand Mao without understanding the fall out.
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  2. This video says that Mao was keen to impose communism on other countries. That has been an American representation for as long as my memory goes, and that is over 60 years. But is it right? Mao had enough trouble just running China, let alone other territories. He aided considerably Vietnam in getting the Americans out, but that was at Vietnamese request, and involved significant sacrifice to Mao's plans for China. To justify the Vietnam War, the USA thought up the Domino Theory - which said that communism had to be prevented from taking over in Vietnam because it was just a stepping stone. We were even told this nonsense in high school in Australia by Army recruiters. Even then I didn't believe it, as China did not have the transportation and communications to make it work. Hilariously, while we in the USA and Australia were being fed the domino nonsense, at the same time in China, their government were telling their own people a domino theory in reverse - that the Americans had to be driven out of Vietnam otherwise if they won they would take on other small Asian countries in turn and then do China. Hilarious, because both stories were just propaganda crap.
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