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We have compiled quotations from chairman mao tsetung in order to help the broad masses learn mao tsetungs. Contact us if you have more questions about our courses. From the outset, chang and halliday are determined to shatter the myth of. In the summer of 1936, the american journalist edgar snow left peking for chinas northwest to visit the new territory taken over by the chinese communist party. Further, all unsigned articles which have been verified as his work are also available. Jung chang, lynn pan e henry zhao editado por jessie lim e yan li, uma outra provincia. Mao tsetung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of onequarter of the worlds population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentiethcentury leader.
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