Mao Zedong

Hero who built an army of poor peasants to rescue China from the Opium Wars and the Century of Humiliation, and the warlord period (where China was broken up into warring factions, not a good time)

said to Seek Truth from Facts

Wrote On Practice

Was the George Washington of China

Certainly made mistakes amidst the chaos and terror of war, but overall was a good dude who restored China to its previous glory