Do you think Lincoln and Mao had a similar role during the US civil war and Chinese civil war?

Abraham Lincoln fought secession by the southern (Confederate) United States. He killed 600,000 Americans to preserve the United States during its Civil War. Lincoln was in a similar role to Chairman Mao during China's Civil War.





"A house divided cannot stand" -- Abe Lincoln|||Nah!|||No, not even close. Mao was the revolutionary over throwing the government.


Lincoln was not.


Mao was a dictatorial tyrant after his forced take over.


Lincoln was not, he was freely reelected.


Mao personally killed people, ordered executions and millions died.


Lincoln did not. He ordered attacks where people died. Out of necessity not because he enjoyed it.|||Nope. The South broke off, and Lincoln fought to bring them back in. In contrast, Mao created a movement to take over the whole country; nobody was trying to split from the rest of China.



Other differences:



1) Lincoln placed preserving the Union before ideology, even before the issue of slaver. Mao was committed to Communism and himself.



2) As a man committed to himself, Mao forced the country into ruin upon winning the war. Although Lincoln did not live to see the end, he spoke of forgiveness and leniency for the losing side, and I don't doubt that he would have tried to make it happen.



P.S. It is true that the Japanese were trying to conquer China; first Manchuria, then the rest of it. But Mao was fighting the Nationalists before that happened.|||That is like saying Germany had a civil war because one small party decided to take power. Entirely different situation.|||Lincoln was in power during the U.S. Civil War. Lincoln was never an absolute ruler.



The leaders were not alike, and their roles in their respective civil wars were not similar.|||no