 few communists could really achieve the level of Mao's deceit and deception. Like Lucifer, Mao built his kingdom entirely on lies and the lie that he was going to improve the life of the people when he actually wound up living like an emperor. The lie that people under communism would find their lives greatly improved when actually they found themselves being really reduced to the status of nothing better than serfs. Serfs under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, slaves of the party who could be told where to go, where to live, how to live, how many children to have, what to eat, and so forth.