Mao Tse-Tung

He was born on December 26, 1893. Mao Tse-tung founded the People's Republic of China in 1949. He had also been one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921. He is regarded, along with Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin, as one of the three great theorists of Marxian communism.
In 1920 he got married to a daughter of one of his teachers. She was executed in 1930 by the Chinese Nationalists. In 1939 he married by the third time. In 1921 The Chinese Communist Party was founded and he was one of the leaders. It was founded in Shangai.
In the 1940s he tried to establish a relationship with the USA, but he was refused to that. Hostility to the United States was deepened by the Korean War. During the early 1950s, Mao served as chairman of the Communist party, chief of state, and chairman of the military commission. His international status as a Marxist leader rose after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953.
In 1960 he started attacking the party leadership and the new chief of state. He made a Cultural Revolution from 1966-1969.
He died in Peking on September 9, 1976.
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