Alexandru’s Reviews > The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 > Status Update

My God, the barbarity, cruelty and carnage of the Communisation of China exceeds anything else I have read. Mao introduced a foreign concept of "landlord" and artificially created classes where none existed in order to turn the poorer peasants against the more well off peasants. Even though there was really no such thing as rich peasants.