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Yes, and the famine was due to Mao's farming policies, Deep plowing, etc. It was also in the 1950's and 60's (not 1985), and the generally accepted death count
by edge17 8y ago
Yes, and the famine was due to Mao's farming policies, Deep plowing, etc. It was also in the 1950's and 60's (not 1985), and the generally accepted death count is 15-30 million, not 100 million.
Lot's of misinformation in the parent comments
- tomohawk 8y agoNot even close. Here's one for 77 million. Estimates start at 45 million and go up from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_by_communist_regimes#People's_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_by_communist_reg...
- parrellel 8y agoYes, and that number just keeps getting adjusted downward doesn't it.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoBy the Chinese government, yes. Not by everyone else. In truth, we will never really know how bad it was because China was closed off back then. First hand accounts only tell of absolute death and misery.
- parrellel 8y agoHave you ever seen a travel-log through rural china, there's a broadcast channel (MHz TV) here in MD that plays a lot of them and the shear physical evidence of famine written on the bodies of people is awful. All of it is, of course, surrounded by narration about the current plenty that exists, which makes it worse somehow.