Mao and his Life

It is stiff competition amongst the worst humans to walk the earth but I have another prime contender, the Chairman. While reading Jung Chang’s book The Unknown Story of Mao I learned a lot about his life and most of it led to the mega loss of human life. Starvation was responsible for much of it but being a friend of Mao’s was also a dicey proposition much like attending the drunken late night revelries that Stalin threw for his friends. There had to be a breathe of relief when Mao passed on, hopefully to the same place Hitler ended up in. Still when traveling through China his face is on display yet sometimes in a paradoxical way. History takes time to reveal the truth and may it reveal the truth about Mao.