I trivialize nothing.
The topic here is Mao. And according to Chinese archives,
- state retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond
- parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off
- One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal
- People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter
- 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.
This comes, again, from Chinese sources. There is no chance of any 'Western bias' here.
Whatabouting such evidence and at the same time celebrating Mao, who was a mass murderer, is particularly repugnant.
If you go ahead with similar deflection, I won't respond anymore.