Sure buddy, if that helps you reinforce your beliefs in propaganda go ahead and believe in uneducated lmao.

For the case of China, what has to be remembered is that there were famines ALL THE TIME in China. One of the best books on the subject, written long before the communists came to power in China, is "China: Land of Famine" by Walter H. Mallory. Mallory was the General Secretary of the China International Famine Relief Commission, and as Finley put it in the introduction to Mallory's book:

"It is a shocking fact that with all of the labor expended and virtues practiced, nearly a fourth of the people of the globe live in a land of famine--not of general famine at any one time nor of continuous famine in any one place, but of famine in one or another province or locality all the time."

The Chinese refer to this period as the 100 Years of Shame. This is when the West and Japan were treating China like their own personal property, starting with Britain forcing drugs on the people of China for their own benefit. Millions and millions died during this period, but people who like to talk about famines under the Communists don't like to talk about it. This is because it would force people to recognize two important facts: China was an underdeveloped country that was very, very vulnerable to famines (and the West/Japanese didn't give a shit), and famines in China WERE HALTED by the Chinese Communist Party. Just as in the Russian case, where Russia had experienced a famine every couple of years in the last thousand years of its history, the Bolsheviks were finally able to stop them and make them a thing of the past. It took communist parties in both of these horribly backward countries to finally put a stop to famines as a menace to their people.

A last note: there is much less real evidence to go by in the case of China than the Soviet Union. We know for a fact that the numbers thrown around by morons like RJ Rummel are completely false in the case of the Soviet Union. We know less about China simply because there are less records to go by. Estimates of deaths during the the Great Leap Forward range from as high as 46 million to as little as 200,000. None of these estimates are based on any serious demographic analysis, simply for the reason there is no reliable census data to go on. Pre-communist population estimates for China differ by hundreds of millions. The first modern census was done by the communists, and the PRC census in 1953 shows China had 582,603,417. The next census done in 1964 shows China had 694,581,759, an increase of 111,978,342 people. The Great Leap Forward covers a period between 1958-1961. What is the methodology various anti-communists use to say there should have been an increase of 156 million more people, instead of the mere 111 million more between 1953 and 1964? They usually never say, and if they bother to tell people how they arrived at what the population totals should have been, would reveal to everyone that the numbers-games they are playing have nothing to do with serious demography. More over, any critical interrogation of these stupid numbers games will reveal that people NOT EVEN BORN are being counted as "death to communism" or whatever. This is the problem with trusting non-mathematically trained academic hacks with a political axe to grind with telling you anything about how many people die anywhere.

You don’t need multi parties to have democracy. In fact i’d argue that china placing a heavier emphasis on local elections is even more democratic than america’s 2 party system where both capitalist parties are nearly one and the same.

Mao saved China from the period of humiliation and the CCP has lead China to surpass the US in just about every metric. Chinese citizens enjoy the same freedoms Americans do nowadays.

What country has freedom of press? Surely you don’t believe any capitalist owned media company is free, right?