How old is Mao Tse Tung?

Mao Tse Tung, or Zedung, was a charismatic leader of the Chinese Republic and one of the most important political figures in the whole history of the country known as the creator of the Chinese Communist ideology based on Marxism-Leninism. Born in 1983 in a small village in the province of Hunan in the south central China. Mao was a good student but when he was 14, his father forced him into an arranged marriage which had a huge affect on Mao's life and made him leave his village. He was closely following the events of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 which helped him develop his political views. In the 1920s and later he worked in Peking University and was the one to establish the Communist Party of China. He took part in all important political events of the middle of the 20th century like the Chinese Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, etc. In 1949 Mao was the one to head the civil movement which freed the country and the People's Republic of China was proclaimed. The early years of his rule were characterized by plenty of repressions deterring any kind of new revolutionary movements. He based his policies on basic communist postulates and created the system of planned economy, similar to the one that the USSR practiced. Mao implemented many reformations like industrialization, improving the country's educational and health care systems, creating better working conditions for the workforce, etc. Mao is famous for creating a system of his personality cult, similar to the one of Stalin or Kim Jong Un. In the mid 1970s his health started declining and Mao Tse Tung died in 1976 after a series of heart attacks, at the age of 82.

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