machonaroja:

Yknow when people criticize the PRC and DPRK circa. 1950-1970 I think they generally forget the alternative for both Korea and China was US-backed fascist dictatorship.

Chiang Kai-shek was an admirer of Hitler and declared that fascism was what China needed, he ruled Taiwan as dictator from 1950 until his death in 1975. Syngman Rhee ruled the RoK for 12 years as a dictator, patented a unique form Korean fascism based around racial supremacy, and committed thousands of extrajudicial murders of alleged communists.

Make no mistake, if the US had won in Korea or China, Asia would have been dominated by fascists for decades, possibly even to this day. It would’ve been a nightmare of unimaginable proportions and the world would no longer remember 1936-1945 as a brief age of fascism — we would remember 1936-the present as a long era of fascist dominance in world politics.

By all means levy criticism of the PRC & DPRK if you must, but always remember what Mao Tse-tung & Kim Il-sung saved their respective nations, and indeed the world, from.

I feel like this is sort of a weird argument? Like certainly Mao and Kim Il-sung were better than the awful awful US backed alternative, but like… the existence of serial murderers doesn’t mean that the guy who gets drunk and beats someone up in front of a bar is a nice dude?