your statement by fact? Sure, there was big failures. But, I would not go so far to call it a total failure. I do not want counting all the beans for you. You can do your own diligence. Just on the healthcare side, between 1949 to 1976, the life expectancy, the daily calories intake, the infant mortality rate, the child birth mortality rate, and general sanitational conditions of an average Mainland China had been greatly improved.