Mao Zedong on Chinese Stamps 2003 & Laogai

Communism is not love. Communism is
a hammer which we use to crush the enemy

Mao Zedong

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Yes, China and Russia had difficult times before Mao and Stalin, and so had Germany during and after the WWI. The difference rather is that Mao and Stalin multiplied the number of "unnatural death" of the citizens of their own countries, by a coefficient that never was reached in history, and this under the quite indifferent eyes of the rest of the humanity.

Shouldn't be Hitler stopped, he had surely continued on the way that he announced from the very beginning in his "Mein Kampf". The Communism was, to say so, more "human", and it better knew how to conceal its brutal face in order to attain its similar goals. That's why Communism could survive such a long time, and why it continues to terrorize hundreds of millions still today.

One of the reasons of my site:

Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/

is to show how this hidden, criminal face appears behind some stamps that look quite innocently at the first view.

BTW, I suppose that is this hidden face and the alleged morality of the Communist theory that makes that, at my present knowledge, I was the first and I'm still the only one who explores this challenging philatelic subject.

Victor Manta

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"John wrote .
> Victor Manta wrote:
> > Jim wrote
> >
> >>"Victor Manta" <manvic_99um@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >>news:c17bbu$1ejren$1@ID-86007.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >>>I have published today a page dedicated to a recent issue of the National
> >>>Philatelic Corporation from the Popular Republic of China.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.values.ch/Communism/China/Mao/mao-laogai.htm
> >>>
> >>>Victor Manta

> >> There are times when I wonder who was responsible for the deaths of
> >>more people... Hitler, Stalin or Mao? It might not surprise me at all if
> >>Hitler placed third. (John)
>
> > You shouldn't be really surprised. Please find below some estimates, from a
> > highly interesting site:
> >
> > Death Tolls
> > ----------------
> >
> > MAO
> > Some 48 Million to 53M unnatural deaths
> >
> > STALIN
> > Median: High - 51M for the entire Stalin Era; 20M during the 1930s.
> > Low - 30M
> >
> > HITLER
> > Median: ca. 15.5M
> >
> > Source: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
<< (V.M.)

> Of course, Mao and Stalin had more time to work on this, also both came
> to power at times when their countries were already experiencing massive
> disruption and death. Not that that excuses either of them. And if
> Hitler hadn't been stopped, he would have certainly continued to kill
> 10's of millions more.
>
> Jim (all names were changed. V.M.)

For these reasons there is no wonder that the today's PRC continues to venerate the criminal who initiated the Laogai und under whose rule the Laogai was extended to unimaginable proportions. We present here four stamps, that were issued in 2003, and that commemorate the "110th Birth Anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong."

The above excerpt is taken from the "Chinese Stamps 2003", a beautifully issued book that contains some very nice stamps, but also the four images of this butcher, who thanks to his legendary "efficiency" can be surely considered the bloodiest one in the long history of humanity.