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Blaming a single guy for famines that had historically been happening in China for hundreds of years is pretty disingenuous too isn't it?
Mao became leader of China after a period they call 100 years of humiliation. They lost over 22 million during WW2, had mostly illiterate peasant economy, and had been brutally colonized by Japanese, British and others, opium addiction, poisoned water...
Mao did not order the death of tens of millions of people and to equate such is actually an insane thing to do.
Hitler literally called for the death of people for being subhuman, that's what makes fascists evil.
Mao was one part of a large leadership circle of an even larger communist party who inherited the ruins of a nation and laid the foundation for one of the poorest nations in the world to become the most powerful in one lifespan.
You are sourcing from Wikipedia which has long been proven to be heavily influenced by US and Israeli intelligence, but I would challenge you to follow their sources and see which ass they pulled these numbers out of to blame on Mao and look it right in the eye and give it a smooch.
What's so funny about this is that it is exactly what communists say. Deng Xiaoping famously said Mao was 70% right and 30% wrong. Every actual communist can talk in depth about the failures of communism, it just isn't worth the time with liberals because they already live in a fantasy world and are generally unreachable even with mountains of evidence