{"id":1160255,"date":"2021-12-27T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160255"},"modified":"2021-12-27T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:03:24","slug":"on-the-birthday-of-historys-biggest-mass-murderer-ccp-backed-media-celebrates-maos-warm-and-powerful-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-the-birthday-of-historys-biggest-mass-murderer-ccp-backed-media-celebrates-maos-warm-and-powerful-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Birthday Of History\u2019s Biggest Mass Murderer, CCP-Backed Media Celebrates Mao\u2019s \u2018Warm And Powerful Smile\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-the-birthday-of-historys-biggest-mass-murderer-ccp-backed-media-celebrates-maos-warm-and-powerful-smile%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Boxing Day, December 26, a Chinese state-backed media outlet celebrated the birth of communist dictator and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader [Mao Zedong],\u201d tweeted Global Times.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaoZedong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MaoZedong<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LNOwkTHr5r\">pic.twitter.com\/LNOwkTHr5r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1474987009072504837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also known as Chairman Mao, the communist revolutionary was the founder of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1976.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The PRC was founded on October 1, 1949, becoming a single-party state controlled with an iron fist by the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has ruled ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the other unmentionable moral crimes of the CCP since its inception \u2014 including the \u201cOne Child Policy,\u201d which resulted in 35 years of countless forced abortions, sterilizations, and the abandonment of babies, as well as the ongoing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province \u2014 the \u201cGreat Leap Forward\u201d alone marks Mao as the most prolific mass murder in history.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, historian Frank Dik\u00f6tter discussed the \u201cappalling truth about Chairman Mao\u2019s genocidal rule\u201d in an article titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/archive\/looking-back-great-leap-forward\">Looking back on the Great Leap Forward<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people\u2019s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them. In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party\u2019s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.<\/p>\n<p>A catastrophe of gargantuan proportions ensued. Extrapolating from published population statistics, historians have speculated that tens of millions of people died of starvation. But the true dimensions of what happened are only now coming to light thanks to the meticulous reports the party itself compiled during the famine\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction. When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later. The case of Wang Ziyou was reported to the central leadership: one of his ears was chopped off, his legs were tied with iron wire, a ten kilogram stone was dropped on his back and then he was branded with a sizzling tool \u2013 punishment for digging up a potato.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s recall a warm and powerful smile, on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"> @ighaworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Boxing Day, December 26, a Chinese state-backed media outlet celebrated the birth of communist dictator and mass murderer, Mao Zedong. \u201cLet\u2019s recall a warm and powerful smile on the 128th anniversary of the birth of late CPC leader [Mao Zedong],\u201d tweeted Global Times. 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