Peng Dehuai: The General Who Told Mao the Truth and Paid with His Life

Описание: Peng Dehuai was one of the most respected military leaders in modern Chinese history — a war hero, a marshal, and the man who led Chinese forces in the Korean War. But in 1959, he made a fatal mistake: he told Mao Zedong the truth. When Peng warned Mao about the famine created by the Great Leap Forward, the Chairman responded not with reform, but revenge.

Drawing from the work of historians such as Frank Dikötter, Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, and Jonathan Spence, this documentary reveals the full, brutal story of how Mao dismantled the life of the general who dared to challenge him. From the Lushan Conference to secret detention, torture, and an unmarked grave, this episode exposes the machinery of paranoia inside Mao’s dictatorship.

This is the story of the man who stood up to Mao — and the dictator who would rather destroy a hero than face the truth.

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