As for your Central Planning, it led to famine, but of course Russians are basically white so the argument against Communism is universal.
Do you know how many famines China had before Mao or how often they occurred?
“Central planning” didn’t cause those famines. They did the transition to collectivized agriculture too fast and the whole thing was such a mess there was a famine for a few years. And in the USSR, a lot of the famine was due to wheat rust epidemic. Also the kulaks set their fields on fire of harvested the crops and piled them in their fields until they got rained on so they got moldy. Also the kulaks killed 50% of the livestock in the several years before the famine. So they destroyed a lot of their crops on purpose and they killed half the livestock in the country. You wonder why there was a famine?
Do you realize that even during the Great Leap in 1958-1961, the death rate in China was still lower than it was in 1949?
The death rate in China collapsed under Mao. Sure, he killed some people, but he saved way more.
Failure of central planning to feed people? China and India were at the same place in 1949. That’s how screwed up China was before Mao. It was as bad as India! Can you imagine? If it wouldn’t have been for Mao, China would be like India right now? India?! Can you visualize that?
After Mao, the malnutrition rate in China is 7%.
After Indian capitalism, the malnutrition rate in India is 51%.
If you wonder why so many Chinese still revere Mao, it’s because of things like that. Chinese people are not idiots.