How did the leadership of Mao Zedong differ from how Joseph Stalin lead? Did the exercise and maintain their power in different ways?
2007-05-17 18:31:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
~All communists lead with their left.
2007-05-17 18:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I see no difference in the "leadership" positions of either. They maintained their power through the Secret Police Monitors, torture, confiscation of personal property, state run agricultural farms, gulags (concentration camps for "reeducation of non-conformists"), control of state owned television which produced the governments "propaganda" forums and not allowing dissent from anyone and no other political parties to usurp the one true government.
Fear of the government is what kept the people from flourishing and speaking out!
Just like the Democrats are trying to do with the new bill in the House and Senate that will make it a crime for "anyone" to speak out against homosexuals and the gay lifestyle. This is the start down a "totalitarian" regime government where the government can tell you what you can and cannot say. Since the Democrats cannot win in the arena of ideas and thought, they want to silence the opposition; just like Communism!
2007-05-17 18:47:08 · answer #2 · answered by Serpico 13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mao was wiser and more patient. But both of them were misguided and working with unworkable ideology.
2007-05-17 18:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by x4294967296 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They both used the same process of propaganda and brainwashing to control the populace, and the elimination of opposition.
2007-05-18 11:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, always at the end of a gun
2007-05-17 18:38:48 · answer #5 · answered by saywhat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DICTATORIAL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
2007-05-17 18:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by 10-T3 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋