1367 Apologies for World War II

The Chinese demanding apologies from Japan for deaths and torture during WWII strikes me as a bit odd. Now that its the anniversary of the end of the war, we're reading about it again. Japan was probably responsible for about 10,000,000 deaths in China during the war. Certainly nothing to be discounted.



But Mao Zedong and his democide committed in the Hundred Flowers Movement, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, all in the last 55 years can take the credit for over 40,000,000 deaths. I'm no math whiz, but the Chinese people, particularly the educated class, would have been better off under Japan than under Mao.

Also, I've noticed that when the American left wing compares US prisoner camps they bring up Hitler and Stalin, but not Mao. Why is that do you suppose? Mao made them look like beginners. He hated his own people and culture, as well as other ethnic groups.

I used these war stats because of the references so they can be checked.