":Please read the comments above, people have gone over this already. The article gives the facts and reasons why so many people died, and the article definitely doesn't ""cheerlead"" anyone. It has both the good sides and bad sides of Mao.  
 And about the Holocaust; it was designed to kill all the Jews in Europe. Mao most likely didn't try to kill all the people in china, thus the difference in description.  

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