> they've lifted a billion humans out of back-breaking subsistence farming
We can never know for sure, but my belief is that if the other side had won the civil war, this would have happened several decades sooner
We can never know for sure, but my belief is that if the other side had won the civil war, this would have happened several decades sooner
We in the west could have stopped screwing them over a couple centuries earlier as well. Might have avoided the whole civil war ever happening.
EDIT: Was being light-hearted about the "holding a grudge". Been a while since Mao is all.