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On a related note, during the Chinese cultural revolution Mao declared war on sparrows(Great Sparrow Campaign) and billions of birds were killed (not only sparr
by myth_drannon 10y ago
On a related note, during the Chinese cultural revolution Mao declared war on sparrows(Great Sparrow Campaign) and billions of birds were killed (not only sparrows...). It's considered as one of that catalysts of The Great Famine that killed 15 million Chinese. They had to import birds from Canada and USSR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
- jonsterling 10y agoChief, this was not the cultural revolution, this was the Great Leap Forward. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution started in 1966.