Mao Tse-Tung is to this day, viewed by many as a father of communism, on par with Lenin, Stalin and other heroes of the old Soviet Union. He is deified by the ruling Chinese communist party and is seen as a brilliant tactician and ideologue by Marxist-Leninists and mainstream communists worldwide. He is seen by many to have a lasting legacy both within China and throughout the world that promotes communism as a viable, sustainable system. In reality, Mao Tse-Tung's "legacy" is nothing more than a series of gross military failures and brutal economic disasters that killed millions of Chines…