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I can assure you that Chinese people are well aware of the nature and scope of Mao's power, they just object to your smug condescension and pejorative framing of their history George Washington's ownership of slaves is treated as an inconvenient footnote in American textbooks. He is not introduced first and foremost as a slaveholder, and his genocidal approach to Native American is entirely ignored. It's just very unserious to deny the major nationalist cult of personality around Washington.

No, Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people should have a country in a specific region already inhabited by Palestinians. The first Jewish national territory was not Israel but the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Its Jewish proponents and their Soviet govt were anti-Zionist The initiative certainly had it's shortcomings--far from urban centres and the labour required to bring it to life was arduous, but it provided Soviet Jews a basis to articulate an atheist and socialist conception of Jewish nationalism, and one not predicteded on ethnic cleansing and apartheid rule like Zionism.