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[Ray Mihigo @ray2kcreations]

Mao Zedong: a legend, but not a saint.

To understand the Mbappé affair, you have to understand how China sees Mao.

In China, Mao has been made into a legend. And not without reason.

He is the one who pulled China out of a century of humiliation. Occupation, civil war, misery. On October 1st, 1949, he proclaimed: "The Chinese people have stood up." He reunified the country, taught millions to read, gave land to the peasants. For hundreds of millions of families, he is the man who gave China back its dignity. That's why his portrait is still on Tiananmen Square and on every banknote.

But a legend is not a man without faults.

The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), to industrialize the country at breakneck speed, caused one of the greatest famines in history. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) plunged the country into ten years of chaos: persecutions, broken families, schools closed.

Even the Communist Party officially recognized it in 1981 with this famous formula: "70% merits, 30% errors".

The difference is that in many other countries, you are allowed to make a full assessment. In Africa, in Europe, we call a dictator a dictator, even if he built roads or schools.

In China, you are allowed to say "he made mistakes", but you are never allowed to say the word "dictator". That word, there, cuts everything off.

That is exactly what happened to Kylian Mbappé, nicknamed "Mobutu" by fans for his dictator-of-the-locker-room side. He saw a meme of himself as Mao and said jokingly "Chinese dictator". He judged a Chinese legend with Western words.

Mao will remain a legend in China. It is their history, and we must respect it.

But respecting a legend should not prevent recognizing that he also made mistakes. Like all great men.

[leonli @leonli]

@magicmike340 你的历史课本是被一部分人灌输了他们的片面思想，他们之所以黑化毛，是因为他们害怕，而真相是解放前的中国几亿人生活在毫无希望的压迫，好比你今天看看非洲的大部分国家，几乎看不到发展的机会，而毛改变了这一切，把一个失败的国家变成了今天的G2，他晚年的确有一些错误，但没有他就没有今天的中国

[leonli @leonli]

@realmadrid 你们买点西瓜给他庆贺一下

[leonli @leonli]

@ogschrammi 电动车领域好比你在问诺基亚和目前的中国品牌比较的感觉

[leonli @leonli]

@Adele_Stabil 我现在开奔驰，但是我下一个车应该是电动车，应该不是德系，但是BYD在中国定位是低端，中国有蔚小理三小强

[leonli @leonli]

@wangzhian8848 这个有道理，以前我们国家穷，足球还是可以妥妥的压制日本，现在被日本足球打得找不到北，听说日本GDP要降低到第6了

[leonli @leonli]

@47crib 德国人这么聪明，为什么输了两次世界大战，对不起，我们好像两次都是战胜国

[leonli @leonli]

@wangzhian8848 在西方语境下，基本上9成以上的人会误以为毛和萨达姆等独裁者一样，只是靠武力取胜，但是事实上他在革命期间是获得了大多数民众支持的，这个是不可否认的事实，晚年的错误是有很大问题，但是不能简单的去描述，这个非常不合理，姆巴佩的文化程度估计就被西方话术简单化了

[leonli @leonli]

@AnthropicAI @grok 帮我总结一下他们说了啥

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14.

FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.

[BBC News 中文 @bbcchinese]

水星是最靠近太阳的行星，人类在几千年前便发现了它，但它却一直被重重谜团所笼罩，让科学家摸不着头脑。

今年11月，由欧洲和日本合作的“贝皮科伦坡号”探测器预计将进入水星轨道。这将是十多年来首次有探测器造访水星。它到底有何特别呢？

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

𝕏 is the set of all things

[leonli @leonli]

@bboczeng 你这么说，你思考一下，波茨坦公告的政府可是当时的中国大陆政府，那个政府的最后一个合法代总统后来成了中国大陆国家副主席，政权已经合法交接，请问跑岛上的算啥？

[leonli @leonli]

@wangzhian8848 你这个屁股歪的

[leonli @leonli]

@SydneyDaddy1 这也太便宜了

[leonli @leonli]

@elonmuskADO B

[leonli @leonli]

@elonmuskADO 8*12=96

[leonli @leonli]

@wangzhian8848 打假这个并不难，24小时有监督情况下，类似难度的卷子，甚至往年的卷子拿出来考一下

[leonli @leonli]

@lewvip 你好政治幼稚，你去看看港独们搞的东西，不要光看西方新闻，两边都看看，你就知道他们所谓的自由是什么

[leonli @leonli]

@lewvip 你们也体会一下什么是fake news！