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Local Mafia Boss wrote: Viva, did you read what I said? Mao would not have been in a position to kill those 60 million people had Hitler not taken power. Great Purges were not, in the total number that died under Stalin, all that large. Also, Stalin would not have been ruling many of the lands he ruined without Hitler.

Yes. Let's all blame Neville Chamberlain for standing up against the psychopathic nutter that was annexing Countries left right and centre.

Have to make a stand somewhere, Viva. Mao's rise had nothing to do with Hitler. Mao took over China because the Nationalists were losing to the Japanese. Like I said, the Sino-Japanese War took place before Hitler. The Nationalists succumbed to a post-war slump which allowed the Communists to step in and defeat Kai-shek. I honestly do not see how Hitler had anything to do with Mao's coming to power.