How did they turn a medieval feudal state into a modern powerhouse in three generations?
>>18432021Provide educationand infrastructureUse capitalism to settle industry as expedientUse sensible state intervention and planning to enable even more industry
>>18432021China already had a millennia long intellectual and (proto, at least) scientific tradition, it's far less impressive than something like the United States having started out as a series of British North American colonies or even Lenin/Stalin and the former Russian Empire
>>18432021manpower and natural resources
>>18432021allowed banking
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>>18432021The Chinese and the Jews are the protagonists of history, everyone else is just a side character.
>theyAll Mao did was win a war. After 9 years of developing China at a reasonable pace for a wartown shithole he tanked the economy so hard with the great leap forward and cultural revolution that it stagnated for almost 20 years. Stalin Anything not retarded that happened during his tenure was either the work of Zhou Enlai the great janitor sweeping up all of Mao's stinkies and turning them into semi-functioning policy, or pure luck (opening diplomacy with USA and Japan at an opportune time because he fucked the USSR relationship so bad that he needed western allies to protect his ass). By the end of his tenure he realized his ideas were fucking retarded and went back and forth between turning a blind eye to allow competent officials like Deng to do actual economics so the country wouldn't collapse and then purging them because it was making him look bad. Peasants were saying fuck it and decollectivising and starting enterprises at the risk of imprisonment or execution because the alternative was death by starvation.Fucking Hau Guofeng did more to improve China than Mao did. He beautifully executed the arrest of the Gang of Four, which saved China from the cursed timeline where they remained a poor totalitarian shithole like North Korea. Then he initiated the reforms that Deng Xiaoping would expand and handed him the government when it became clear that was the best move for the unity of the party and the future of the nation.
>theyAll Mao did was win a war. After 9 years of developing China at a reasonable pace for a wartown shithole he tanked the economy so hard with the great leap forward and cultural revolution that it stagnated for almost 20 years. Stalin brought the USSR from backwater to industrial powerhouse in 25 years. In the same timespan Mao only industrialized 15% of the nation and left it only marginally less poor than when he inherited it. Anything not retarded that happened during his tenure was either the work of Zhou Enlai the great janitor sweeping up all of Mao's stinkies and turning them into semi-functioning policy, or pure luck (opening diplomacy with USA and Japan at an opportune time because he fucked the USSR relationship so bad that he needed western allies to protect his ass). By the end of his tenure he realized his ideas were fucking retarded and went back and forth between turning a blind eye to allow competent officials like Deng to do actual economics so the country wouldn't collapse and then purging them because it was making him look bad. Peasants were saying fuck it and decollectivising and starting enterprises at the risk of imprisonment or execution because the alternative was death by starvation.Fucking Hau Guofeng did more to improve China than Mao did. He beautifully executed the arrest of the Gang of Four, which saved China from the cursed timeline where they remained a poor totalitarian shithole like North Korea. Then he initiated the reforms that Deng Xiaoping would expand and handed him the government when it became clear that was the best move for the unity of the party and the future of the nation.
