Jack of Harts

The conquest of China by a socialist rebellion was one of Russia’s greatest foreign policy victories. It was the kind of victory that nearly destroyed them in later centuries. But the short-term results included at least 50 million dead Chinese due to Chairman Mao’s pogroms and his Great Leap Forward famine. China nearly collapsed, but an elemental stoicism kept the people marching forward until socialist China became one of the most powerful nations on Earth.