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China's Great Famine: the true story (2013)
- tomohawk 3y agometiculously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism. Mao Zedong had vowed to build a communist paradise in China through sheer revolutionary zeal, collectivising farmland and creating massive communes at astonishing speed. So many atrocities of the 20th century committed by socialist ideologues like Mao, Stalin, Lennin, Pol Pot, ...