Me & Mao

Know who’s in the picture over my left shoulder? That’s ‘ole Chairman Mao, who was the leader of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. The old commie was a controversial figure, to say the least. On one hand he was considered the Father of Modern China, the man who was able to bring his people forward from a backward third world country to a dynamic world power. On the other hand, he is accused of masterminding inept policies that caused the deaths of somewhere between 40 and 75 million people.