Chapter 14 I don’t care about the death of 400 million compatriots advocating the early fighting of World War III 1955

Journalist: “Do you advocate that World War III should be fought early and that you are not afraid of 400 million deaths?”

Mao: “Yes, in 1955 I spoke several times on the issue of World War III, and I said that a world war is not terrible. The First World War fought a socialist country, the Soviet Union, the Second World War fought a socialist camp. The Third World War, if it breaks out, will lead to a world commonwealth.

I said emphatically that the Third World War should be fought early, in a big way, in a nuclear war, in China.

I also said that if World War III broke out, I suggested that the Soviet Union pretend to sit back and watch while I lead the Chinese people and draw the American army to the Chinese battlefield and we fight a conventional war with the American army. The war would expand and snowball, and then we would pretend to be defeated and gradually bring the American army into mainland China, so that the American army would be caught in a human wave’s attack and force the United States to commit its main army to the Chinese theater. When the U.S. commits its main army to the Chinese battlefield, we ask the Soviet Union to suddenly drop the atomic bomb on the Chinese battlefield and wipe out the main U.S. army on the Chinese battlefield in one fell swoop.

Finally, I say that China may die 400 million people in such a world war. But it was worth the sacrifice of two-thirds of China’s population for a common world. (China’s population at that time was 600 million)

In 1957, at the International Communist Conference in Moscow, I advocated a world revolution to destroy American imperialism, and I was prepared to die 1/3 of the people, at most half of them, to win a world communist victory.”

Journalist: “You so advocate fighting the Great War, at the risk of taking 400 million lives of your compatriots as a gamble to achieve your ambition to be the king of the world, is it a loss of humanity?”

Mao: “Yes, I have lost my humanity. I did not find the fuse that set off the Great War. If I had found the fuse then, I would have probably set off the Great War because I was mentally prepared. A great war with 400 million dead compatriots is indeed unthinkably cruel.”

Journalist: “But your intention to detonate a world war as intended, may not be played. I am only afraid that before you take action, the U.S. military will bury you in Zhongnanhai. You know, in the 1950s, when Commander Eisenhower was president, he was alerted to your war-mongering schemes and prepared to use atomic weapons to end you when you started the war.”

Journalist: “How do you feel about revolutionary dead people?”

Mao: “I am not afraid of death, but only afraid of death itself, I follow the philosophy of ‘revolution is death,’ not afraid of death, the more people die, the deeper the revolution, the closer to victory, regardless of the number of deaths. From the time I went to Jinggang Mountain, Jiangxi, I fought the AB League regiment died 100,000 people, hit me when Jiangxi soil leader, from the war against Japan to the Communist civil war to seize victory, the entire revolution Zhou Enlai said 20 million dead, I stood up for the king.

The draft set out more than 80,000 people, and finally arrived in Shaanxi 6000 people, died more than 90%, and developed during the anti-Japanese resistance, to the anti-Japanese victory expanded to 1 million people, 3 years of the Communist civil war, more expanded to 4 million troops. All the way to victory, countless people died in the middle. I was not afraid of the Korean War when 1 million people died.

At the beginning of the Great Leap Forward, I suggested that 50 million people might die. 9,000 people went to the mountains to make iron and steel and run water conservancy, and 50 million people died normally. The Great Famine was indeed 50 million people died in 3 years, but I do not care, in my verbal, only a few people died, China’s population at that time is 700 million dead tens of millions is a small number, there are more than 600 million.

In 1955, I advocated the early fight of World War III, 200-300 million dead people is not much, get victory, perhaps the global realization of communism. I was in Moscow conference to launch the world revolution at 1957, 1/3 of the dead people are not afraid, at most half dead, there are half, then the world’s population of 2.7 billion.

In 1950, I signed a secret clause in the Sino-Soviet treaty with Stalin, in which the Soviets proposed that China had too many people and should try to reduce them by 100 million, and I made a false promise, but never found a way to do it. The Great Famine killed tens of millions of people, so that was exactly what we could do. Therefore, I never put tens of millions of dead people in my heart, I ordered Zhou Enlai: ‘dead people report, burn it!’

The two factions of the Cultural Revolution martial arts fights dead people, the real sword, the national chaos, the national civil war, I said well well, celebrate. Chaos up, fighting, dead people, I’m happy, the revolution is deep, the Cultural Revolution dead people exactly how many? I do not care. Ye Jianying said 20 million, in fact, it is impossible to calculate clearly, I do not want to statistics, the Americans in the war dead count a number of people, there is a famous name, I count the dead on the heap, a place a large pile, pile up is also an estimate, I do not want to statistics, so the local statistics are not reported, reported to be criticized by me, to dead people pressure revolution, China has a lot of people, a pile of piles like ants, not dead people is not called revolution. If death is a calamity, I am a calamity, but of course I can’t die myself, if I die, the revolution will be over.

I have never fought a war with a sea of men, with three times four times the number of troops to surround the enemy to win, the number of dead does not count, only to seek the final victory, from the domestic fight against Chiang Kai-shek to Korea to fight the U.S. Army, are so. I never read the dead report list, so the following also dare not report to me again.

At the beginning of the Communist Party in 1921, I knew that the Russian Communist Revolution had taken power with 3 million dead. At that time, I was determined to follow the example of Russia, that revolution is death, and I was not afraid of how many people died.”