Deng Xiaoping (Part 3) | Ep. 65

Today in Part 3 of our Deng Xiaoping overview we look at The Great One’s life from 1952 after his return from the Southwest Bureau all the way up to the start of the Cultural Revolution.
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[@WalkNZ]

I dunno why but I love that Deng couldn't stand Jiang Qing 😅

[@Pyro-Moloch]

As much of a monster Stalin was, I don't like one bit how Khruschev denounced him. It did no favours to the country itself AND harmed relationship with China. Considering how Stalin was pretty much the builder of the nation, what good did it do to villainize him? I believe Khruschev did it only to increase his own prestige within the party, as he was competing with Beria for the leadership at the time (if I didn't mess up the dates). And I mean, even if Beria was out of the picture, it was still giving Khruschev more clout, and therefore more power.

[@ChinaHistoryPodcast]

Khruschev was a politician, and so, capable of anything. It would be hard to get me to feel sorry for Stalin about anything. Mao sure didn't like him and spent the rest of his life trying to find "his" Khruschev.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

@@ChinaHistoryPodcast Yeah, of course, I don't mean that I felt sorry for Stalin. Just that he'd done a lot of work, and USSR was still largely based on his ideas (the very idea to even have a communist country was his, as opposed to the international revolution). So it probably wasn't the best move to tell people (who were still mourning Stalin) that everything they'd believed in was bullshit, and that a lot of their relatives and friends died for no great cause. This probably didn't have a great effect upon the trust of the people in their government. Khruschev should've gone the Deng Xiaoping way, implementing reforms while also respecting the foundation that had been built.

[@noormaree2975]

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