Sarah Paine

is still present in this highly institutionalized, wealthy country, this one, you better believe China's a mess.

So then when you're wondering why Mao can't surf that wave, no one can.

Okay, Mao doesn't become canonized as Mao, or I'm mixing metaphors, the emperor of China until victory in the Korean War.

So in the early period, Mao is supposed to have written this book called On Guerrilla Warfare.

It is not written by Mao.

It took

Time to Figure It Out for Outsiders.

It's written by Peng Dehuai and others, his generals.

And so there were many people's ideas that went into winning the Civil War.

It is not just Mao, and then he winds up purging these people later.

And so it's not until after the Korean, during the Korean War, he's busy purging everybody massively, because you can use it as a big excuse, right?

We got this war, we don't want to hear from these people.

And so he has purged more and more and more and more people so that there are fewer and fewer counterarguments.

It's a real case against dictatorship.

For all the chaos of party politics, you're at least—you're forced to confront the counterargument.

It is a healthier situation to be in.

I believe there's a detail of how many tens of millions of Russians died in that thing.

So great, it's a personal success for him.

The numbers of Russians who were destroyed in that are incredible.

So, okay, for dictators, yeah, they can have personal successes.