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Summarizing Mao’s early years as chief of state of the Communist People’s Republic of China, Dr. Richard L. Walker notes in ''The Human Cost of Communism in China'': | Summarizing Mao’s early years as chief of state of the Communist People’s Republic of China, Dr. Richard L. Walker notes in ''The Human Cost of Communism in China'': | ||
<blockquote>Millions were executed in the immediate post-power seizure period in Communist China. Many of the executions took place after mass public trials, in which the assembled crowds, whipped up to a frenzy by planted agitators, called invariably for the death penalty and for no mercy for the accused. During this early period, Mao and his colleagues made no effort to conceal the violent course being followed. On the contrary, the most gruesome and detailed accounts were printed in the Communist press and broadcast over the official radio for the purpose of amplifying the condition of mass terror the trials were clearly intended to induce.<ref>Richard L. Walker, ''The Human Cost of Communism in China'' (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 11.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Millions were executed in the immediate post-power seizure period in Communist China. Many of the executions took place after mass public trials, in which the assembled crowds, whipped up to a frenzy by planted agitators, called invariably for the [[death penalty]] and for no mercy for the accused. During this early period, Mao and his colleagues made no effort to conceal the violent course being followed. On the contrary, the most gruesome and detailed accounts were printed in the Communist press and broadcast over the official radio for the purpose of amplifying the condition of mass terror the trials were clearly intended to induce.<ref>Richard L. Walker, ''The Human Cost of Communism in China'' (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 11.</ref></blockquote> | ||
As Mao himself had foretold in 1927 in one of his earliest works, “to put it bluntly, it is necessary to create terror for a while in every rural area.”<ref>Mao Tse-tung, “Report of an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan,” in Thomas M. Buoye et al., ed., ''China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future'' (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies, 2002), p. 88.</ref> | As Mao himself had foretold in 1927 in one of his earliest works, “to put it bluntly, it is necessary to create terror for a while in every rural area.”<ref>Mao Tse-tung, “Report of an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan,” in Thomas M. Buoye et al., ed., ''China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future'' (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies, 2002), p. 88.</ref> | ||