This essay is about how two countries both committed and justified mass murder. The first country is the Soviet Union and its ruler Josef Stalin. The second is China and its ruler Mao Zedong. I will be talking about both of these rulers and their manner of the mass murders, how they justified the killings and the meanings of them. In the 1950s, directly after the Communists took control in China, the Soviets had a union with them and gave them a few weapons and innovation. This was a direct result of the Korean War, which included America against the Communist world, so Stalin consented to help Mao out a bit. Mao thus let the Korean war delay for longer than it needed to, with the goal that he could continue constraining the Soviets for help. By the beginning of the 1960s, however, the Soviets were treating China with utter disdain and by the mid 1960s the separation was finished. In many ways, he never really had to. If you look at the way he interacted with them at meetings, Stalin was constantly pushing to see what he could and couldn't get away with. …show more content…
Headstrong workers kicked the bucket of starvation, beatings and sickness amid Great Leap, Red Guards passed on account of other Red Guard groups, and in the long run PLA troopers in the Cultural Revolution, understudies sent down to the wide open frequently kicked the bucket on account of furious and severe laborers when they didn't starve or confer suicide. Be that as it may, Mao's foes like Gao Gang, or Peng Dehuai, were simply kept in house capture. He may have had Lin Biao harmed or shot, yet Liu Shaoqi just died since Mao rejected him, drug as he lay, biting the dust. Indeed, even his deep rooted friend Zhou passed on for a similar reason, so Mao could kick the bucket guaranteed that Zhou would not fix his inheritance. Stalin did what he thought was best to advance what he thought was best for the