The Unfortunate Consequences of Censorship

I subscribed to some International related news feeds, in the hopes that I would get some non-US perspective about the news. A couple of the feeds deal with Asian news. I found this link today:

Mao Zedong: the God of China

Unfortunately (for my personal goal to increase my own awareness), it appears this was not written by someone Chinese:

Numerous Mao-backed movements, like the "Great Leap Forward," a disastrous attempt at speedy industrialization, and the Cultural Revolution, led to tens of millions of deaths and the persecution of innocent people.

China has recently scrubbed Mao from its textbooks, and indeed much of history, choosing instead to focus on

economics, technology, social customs and globalization.

(from New Chinese textbooks erase history)

I guess we can only hope that in another generation, people will again start to wonder about their history, and stop vilifying the West for their problems.