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China's Great Leap Forward Killed 45 Million While Regime Exported Grain
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"Between 1958 and 1962, Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward tried to abolish private incentive and force equal outcomes through violence. The result was the worst peacetime famine in human history, an estimated 45 million people dead, while the regime exported grain in a grotesque attempt to trick everyone into believing that the system was actually working."
Mao's socialist policies between 1958 and 1962 resulted in history's worst peacetime famine, killing an estimated 45 million people. The regime continued exporting grain internationally to maintain the illusion of success while its population starved, demonstrating the deadly consequences of centrally planned economies that abolish market incentives.
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