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You don’t think the British and the Americans had any blame for this? For why China was so poor, and had to dig themselves out of a hole in the ground? After all, the criminal British Empire made their fortunes, by shoving opium down the throats of the Chinese for 100 freaking years! And then Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who never had a job his entire life, and just one day became the American president, well, where di…
> At least after the CPC and Mao came into power in China, they finally eliminated the opium scourge, and kicked out the British dickheads from their country (except for Hong Kong). And then, he killed, and starved 60m of his countrymen. How many English killed, and how many Mao killed. I feel, you are under influence of Maoism.
> Under the commune system, agricultural and political decisions were decentralized, and ideological purity rather than expertise was emphasized. The peasants were organized into brigade teams, and communal kitchens were established so that women could be freed for work. The program was implemented with such haste by overzealous cadres that implements were often melted to make steel in the backyard furnaces, and many farm animals were slaughtered by discontented peasants. These errors in implementation were made worse by a series of natural disasters and the withdrawal of Soviet support. The inefficiency of the communes and the large-scale diversion of farm labour into small-scale industry disrupted China's agriculture seriously, and three consecutive years of natural calamities added to what quickly turned into a national disaster; in all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.