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[quote=MARRIE,267256]Except for authorizing massive support in weapons and "volunteer" 
            divisions for North Korea in the early 1950s, Mao took little 
            further direct part in military operations. Although he continued to 
            dominate the military, as he did every other aspect of Chinese life, 
            his primary focus was now on the political realm. Within China, Mao 
            instituted various "revolutions" to advance his ideas. Outside China 
            he dispatched military and civilian agents to spread his brand of 
            communism around the world. Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap in 
            Indochina, Kim Il Sung in Korea, Fidel Castro in Cuba, Pol Pot in 
            Cambodia, students on American campuses during the 1960s, and other 
            revolutionists around the world studied the teaching of Mao. His 
            "little Red Book," Quotations of Chairman Mao, became the Bible of 
            his country and the revolutionary primer for discontents around the 
            globe. 
            Mao never hesitated to use his army to put down any opposition 
            within China, and during his tenure his military milled far more 
            Chinese than external enemies. His rule from 1949 until his death at 
            age eighty-three in Beijing on September 9, 1976, remained as strong 
            and complete, and mostly corrupt, as that of any government in the 
            world. 
            On the surface, it would appear that Mao Zedong made an indelible 
            mark by gaining and wielding control over the world's most populated 
            country. But for all his emphasis on long-term strategy, Mao 
            practiced a political philosophy vulnerable to changing world 
            events. Though China continues to operate under a Communist regime, 
            it is not Mao's model of Communism; indeed, his successors have 
            attempted to exorcise Mao. Many other communist countries Mao 
            supported have declined or collapsed altogether. Readers of his 
            Little Red Book are nowhere in power.[/quote]

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