If he was still alive, Mao Zedong would have been 120-years old today.  If the 45-million people who died during Mao’s failed Great Leap Forward were still alive today, they’d be — well — they’d be alive.

To commemorate Mao’s birthday, here’s a demo recording from my musical China – The Whole Enchilada, written with my friend Paul Mirkovich. In the show, the song is sung by Joseph Stalin.