forward starts by the end of 1957 and one of the greatest reasons is the death of a man called joseph stalinhe death of stalin is mouse liberation. for a very long time, mao was being very much indebted to stalin, and he sees himself as their real leader of the socialist camp. think about it. stalin never let the bolshevik revolution. lenin did. mal sees himself as somebody who brought humanity to what he would describe as liberation. mao was the one unlike stalin who fought the americans to stand still in the korean war. after mao's that's a rather rotund and awkward man called liu shaoqi succeeds him and mao has very little respect for that particular person. now when he goes to moscow in 1957 and liu shaoqi openly proclaims that the soviet union has -- is going to overtake the united united states in the production of butter, milk and other dairy products, mao jumps in and says we will overtake england. you may overtake the united states but we will overtake england, still seen as a major power within 50 years. he states his own prestige on the great leap forward from socialism into commu

you're lucky it's not joe testify -- joseph stalin. >> could be worse, it would be barney frank. i worked on the campaign. >> the question is why don't we have real conservatism? i think this is probably changing, but i mean, the defense i give to republicans who come to washington running as conservatives and not os governing as conservatives is they don't get rewarded at the ballot box for cutting programs. i think the tea party may change that now, but when you have all of these -- [applause] i mean, the perfect key of it is arnold in california who puts these items on the ballot when he first comes in to take away some of the policies the public sector has, but every public sector in california, all their relatives and neighbors are going to vote in that election, but a lot of rest of california woke up the day after the elections and said, oh, was there an election yesterday? he lost all of his initiative, and then he started governing like a democrat, and the same thing happens in washington. you move to cut something that's utterly useless like the national endowment of th