On the evening of November 3, Bruno Retailleau, chairman of the French Republican Party and presidential candidate, was asked on a BFMTV program whether Mao Zedong was a dictator. He replied "of course" twice, stated that Mao caused the deaths of tens of millions, and equated communism with Nazism as two forms of totalitarianism.
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李老师不是你老师
2026-11-04 07:49 · 11月3日，法国共和党主席、总统候选人雷塔约在BFMTV被问及毛泽东是否独裁者时连答两次“当然”，并称毛泽东造成数千万人死亡。
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French Presidential Candidate Retailleau Calls Mao Zedong "Of Course a Dictator"
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