by Scott Manning
March 26, 2009
38,000,000 people dying in a four-year period is hard to fathom, but that’s how many starved to death in China from 1958-1961 during the Great Leap Forward.1 This does not even include 10,729,000 that died in labor camps, were executed, or were targeted minorities.2 A population chart is a great aid to better visualize how [...]
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by Scott Manning
March 25, 2009
In May of 1958, the People’s Republic of China launched The Great Leap Forward, an effort by the country’s leaders to transform China into a military superpower in just five years. The goal was to increase the country’s grain and cereal production by grouping the peasants into “thousands or even tens of thousands of families, [...]
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