He was a disaster in ruling China but he succeeded in one thing
that Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek could not - unify China.
China is a big country with a huge population, you want to unify
this country and bring it under centralised control is not easy,
only Mao Zedong could do it
You talk cock.
His Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution came long after
World War II and the unification of China.