Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The Long March that epic, 6000 mile, one year > journey that Mao led, sometimes compared to Moses > leading his chosen people... Mao and Moses? I agree that the Chinese suffering during WWII was immense. Ten million civilian deaths eclipses that of any other nation or ethnic group (the twenty million Russian deaths were predominately combat deaths at critical junctures as the Battle of Stalingrad). But Mao's vision and certainly his legacy was and is hardly a benevolent one. It condoned the deaths of probably a million Tibetans, the deforestation of their countryside, millions more dead during the early 60's (many from starvation due to economic policies), and a state that continues to be repressively and fervently secular. John Evensta - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html