Mao Tse-tung. The name should sound familiar if not, the infamous history of that name backed by a man who long fought a rebelious coup against the Nationalist Chinese Party, should help you remember. You learned it most likely in Global Studies in your typical 10th grade school history class, while studying World Communism. A single man, divine with the souls of peasents of the Chinese empire and armed with a rebelous personality and education of the Socialist idealogies, rose up against in his view, a suppressing empire obsessed with the luxouries for the wealthy. Now, if that is true, that is a debatable matter which we will not discuss in this post. One thing stands out about this man, however. His leadership, charming charisma, and rebelious attitude ranks him amongst some of the greatest leaders in the 20th Century. His ability to unite a whole faction of Communist believers and lead one of the world's largest revolts in modern history.
*More History on Mao Tse-tung: History of Mao Tse-tung
How ever, since the rise of the Communists in China, a strive to inquire foreign technology, arms, and other materials of warfare have been a national obsession for more than five decades. Using both covert and overt means of gathering these materials. During the Cold War, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was funded directly by the United Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Union). Arming the rebels with weapons and training, the Soviet Union was capable of running its own major coup in China and completely topple the Chinese Nationalist party.
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It was the day, that world's longest lasting Empire would fall to its knees to modern communism.
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Updated: Sunday, August 1, 2004 6:21 PM EDT
