21* century — the dictators Idi Amin, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milosevic, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Charles Taylor, and Mao Zedong. These men were responsible for the brutal deaths of approximately 80 million people combined. Most were mentally healthy, at least in terms of clini

to prison.> Public confessions: Humiliating public con- fessions of ideological crimes were a staple of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's purges and Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China. They were also employed by Eastern European sat- ellite regimes during the show trials of the late 1940s. A peculiarl

hina’s political, economic, social, and value systems, then experiencing the last turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the decline and death of Mao Zedong in 1976, These congressional visits to China seemed to help the Chinese government improve its standing with Congress and favorably influence Americ

t: “Any leading group should have a core; a leadership with no core is unreliable.” Only then did Deng retrospec- tively apply the novel term to Mao Zedong (84) and to himself, as core of the first and second gener- ations, respectively. (Of course, Mao was so utterly dominant that calling him core durin