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1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
People call communism “bad” for two linked reasons: critics argue its economic model fails to allocate resources without market signals, and historical regimes that called themselves communist produce...
Debate over “Does socialism work?” is alive and polarized: recent U.S. politics show Congress formally denouncing socialism (H.Con.Res.58 passed 285–98) while polls and campus politics show growing sy...
The U.S. House passed H.Con.Res.58, “denouncing the horrors of socialism,” on Nov. 21, 2025 by 285–98; a significant plurality of House Democrats voted against the measure while 86 (or roughly a minor...
Five countries still officially governed by communist parties—China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam—trace uninterrupted single‑party rule from mid‑20th century revolutions to the present, while a...
Available reporting shows competing claims about Xi Jinping’s schooling — viral anecdotes assert he only finished elementary or never completed high school , while established biographical and academi...
Marxism–Leninism as an ideology calls for a proletarian dictatorship, suppression of counter‑revolution and repression of “classes deemed hostile,” which in practice has included forcible elimination ...
A small but visible constellation of anecdotes and first‑hand claims about politicians’ personal hygiene appears in public discourse, ranging from allegations about Donald Trump’s smell to historical ...
Mao Zedong’s rule (1949–1976) oversaw widescale state-led campaigns that produced mass starvation, political purges, and systemic repression of civil, religious, and cultural life—effects documented b...
Mao Zedong’s rule is associated with the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, but historians disagree sharply on how to count those deaths and how many can be directly attributed to his decisions; t...
Zhongnanhai contains named halls, gardens and residences long associated with Mao Zedong and subsequent Chinese leaders: Mao’s personal spaces are repeatedly identified as the “Library/Chrysanthemum S...
Zhongnanhai is a former imperial garden west of the Forbidden City in central Beijing that evolved into the political headquarters of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, ho...
Historians and analysts commonly point to the Soviet Union and Maoist China as paradigmatic failures of 20th‑century state‑socialist experiments—linked to economic stagnation, shortages and mass repre...
Congress’s non‑binding H. Con. Res. 58, titled “Denouncing the horrors of socialism,” was passed by the House on Nov. 21, 2025 by a 285–98 vote and declares that “Congress denounces socialism in all i...
The available sources do not directly address the specific Factually.co article you asked about; instead, they offer competing narratives about communism’s historical outcomes: official U.S. messaging...