Life expectancy doubled under Mao. Foot binding was ended. He was instrumental in the victory of China against Japanese imperialism. China rapidly industrialized under Mao. Without Mao, there certainly would have been someone else playing his historic role, but the important factor is that it was indeed Mao that led China to liberation and helped set in stone the modern prosperous China.
Those “worldwide improvements in medical science” would never have reached the rural Chinese peasants who had never had access to Western medicine at all, without the Barefoot Doctors Program, which you’ve never heard of.
Life expectancy doubled under Mao. Foot binding was ended. He was instrumental in the victory of China against Japanese imperialism. China rapidly industrialized under Mao. Without Mao, there certainly would have been someone else playing his historic role, but the important factor is that it was indeed Mao that led China to liberation and helped set in stone the modern prosperous China.
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Damn bro, I didn’t know Mao was responsible for the worldwide improvements in medical science.
Those “worldwide improvements in medical science” would never have reached the rural Chinese peasants who had never had access to Western medicine at all, without the Barefoot Doctors Program, which you’ve never heard of.