The Horrific Truth Behind The Largest Famine In History | Mao’s Great Famine

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In 1958, Chairman Mao announced an ambitious 5 year plan known as ‘The Great Leap Forward’. The idea of this would be to rapidly industrialise China to catch up to the rest of the world. Instead of producing the grand success promised to Chinese citizens, this would instead be the start of the largest famine in the world killing more than 45 million people.

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