Li Xiannian vs Talaat Pasha

Li Xiannian joined the Long March as a political commissar, leading troops through harsh conditions. He later became a key military commander in the Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War.

Li Xiannian was appointed Minister of Finance, overseeing China's economic planning during the First Five-Year Plan. He implemented Soviet-style central planning and managed the national budget.

Li Xiannian supported Deng Xiaoping's market-oriented reforms, helping to shift China from a planned economy to a more market-based system. He advocated for agricultural decollectivization and foreign investment.

Li Xiannian was elected President of the PRC, serving until 1988. He was a ceremonial head of state but also a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, influencing economic policy.

Li Xiannian died while still serving as President of the PRC. His death marked the end of an era of revolutionary-era leaders in Chinese politics.

As Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha ordered the deportation of the Armenian population from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert beginning in April 1915. This policy resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians through massacres, starvation, and forced marches.

Talaat Pasha became Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire on February 4, 1917, serving as the de facto ruler during World War I. He held this position until the Ottoman defeat in October 1918, overseeing the empire's final war years.

Talaat Pasha was assassinated on March 15, 1921, in Berlin by Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian as part of Operation Nemesis, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's plot to kill perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. Tehlirian was acquitted by a German court.