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Contains some violent scenes and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
Available for 170 days
Mao Zedong's Communists come down from the mountains to do battle with the Nationalists. After clinching victory, Mao is greeted by many as a hero. But life under the new Chairman is about to get a whole lot worse. Installed as Supreme Leader, Mao sets about revolutionising the way his people live, work, and even think. His ‘Great Leap Forward’ is intended to be an economic masterplan. Instead, it will drive people across China to the wildest extremes of human behaviour. From Noiser, this is Real Dictators. This is part 2 of 3 of the Mao Zedong story. Narrated by Paul McGann, written by Joel Duddell
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