Hint: the former - hundreds of thousands, the latter - zero
> Mao's policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.
I guess according to you killing your own people shouldn't be counted.
Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own freedom?
But they never had the chance to oppose it. We do. And so who are the real dummies.
With how popular Trump is in the states, that makes me think dictatorship is just around the corner. Settling scores is coming.
But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued.
I hate bashing the West all the time, but come on, we aren’t the good guys in the world. And it’s time we own up to who we are. I have ffs. And I do wonder if the world would have been a more peaceful place if we collectively had more soul.