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Aditi Communist China After a bitter struggle in China, between the nationalists and the communists from 1927 and 1949, Mao Zedong (the communist leader) declared the People's Republic of China on October 1st. Mao faced two main problems: the unification of China and the centralization of government and to solve both of these problems, he made a kind of New Democracy or "Democratic Dictatorship." Under this Democratic Dictatorship, all the four classes of society would be represented (therefore a democracy), but the government would harshly deal with rebellions and riots (dictatorship). From 1949 to 1954, Mao made an aggressive campaign against all his political opponents around the country. Mao claimed that he had executed some 800,000 individuals whom he said were "class enemies," but Western historians say it is several times that amount. He set up forced-labour camps, several prisons, and massive "re-education" and "self-criticism" programs so that any counter-revolutionary political ideas...

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