Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, was a committed Marxist who supported the adaptation of such a Western ideology by Vladimir Lenin, which led to the first successful Communist Revolution, in 1917 in Russia.
When the Chinese Communists obtained full control over the nation, on 1st October 1949, they created a regime closely modelled on Soviet Russia.
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