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Ending the practice of footbinding alone justifies every single thing Mao ever did. You don't even have to include the fact that life expectancy was 33 years old at the time of the revolution starting, or that it went UP during the revolution, during a period of 2 civil wars and a brutal fascist invasion, because the communists were still somehow improving more lives under those conditions. Life expectancy was in the 60s by Mao's death.
Did he make mistakes? Sure he did, he shouldn't have killed all the sparrows and the cultural revolution was kinda hit n miss mostly miss. But come the fuck on lifespans do not go UP while people's lives are getting worse, shorter, or whatever.
Footbinding on the other hand was a brutal horrific practicing affecting 50% of all poor women and 100% of rich women. For a thousand years. Holy shit yes Mao was justified.
This is ultra basic stuff mate you're better than this. 70% good, 30% bad. Overall an obviously positive effect on China. Taking "a lot of people died" out of context and into isolation instead of comparing it to how many people were already dying and how things improved is pure hog brained propaganda and you shouldn't fill your head with that method of looking at things, it's the analysis of a literal child or someone that is criminally thick.