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Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward killed 30 to 45 million people through famine
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The 50-Year Lie About China
"The result was that between 1958 and 1962 Mao's regime was responsible for the deaths of somewhere between 30 and 45 million people. That is not a typo. Tens of millions of people starved to death because of communist central planning. One of the worst catastrophes in all of human history, a man-made famine designed by the Maoist government."
The speaker details how Mao's forced collectivization and absurd steel production quotas during the Great Leap Forward triggered one of history's deadliest famines, with people forced to melt down farming tools into useless ore. This man-made disaster resulted from central planning that prioritized ideological goals over human life, making Mao arguably the greatest mass murderer in human history.
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