"China must be the most traumatized nation in the world."

Check out this article from Friday's San Francisco Chronicle,
"Mao debunkers defend their book: Critics call it effort to discredit communism".

Mao is portrayed in a new book as "a cynical hedonist who rose to absolute power on Societ strongman Josef Stalin's muscle and his willingness to crush millions of peasants in famine, war and sadistic repression". I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess I could be wrong.