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“Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.”

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Deng Xiaoping, originally named Deng Xiansheng, was born on August 22, 1904, in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, China. He was a great proletarian revolutionary, politician, military strategist, and diplomat, a loyal communist fighter, the overall designer of China's reform and opening up and modernization construction, the founder of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics, and the main founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory. Deng Xiaoping's life was a lifelong struggle for the independence, liberation, prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony of the Chinese nation. more

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