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Man made disasters In this situation of increasing repression and propaganda from a world power, it is important to remember with. Here s the dark story The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the worst man made disaster of the th century Mao Zedong s Great Leap Forward from . That story is not told in Beijing. Mao the Powerful We now know a great deal about this tragedy. Through meticulous studies, based on extensive source searches from central and regional Chinese archives, the Dutch British historian Frank Dikötter has led us into the core of this tyrannical regime. In Mao s Great Famine.
The History of China s Most Devastating Catastrophe and The Tragedy of Liberation show moible number data Dikötter that Mao Zedong is directly responsible for the famine disasters. The intended electroshock The idea was to electrocute the Chinese economy and catch up with Britain in a generation or less. Generally, the human cost of this period has been considered the result of failed giant plans in combination with bad weather. Dikötter tears up the ground under this interpretation.

He puts the disasters in direct connection with the regime and Mao s own lust for power. The chairman used The great leap to consolidate his own supremacy in the party and beat out competitors. Deng Xiao Peng was enthusiastic all the way. The utopian paradise Millions of Chinese were squeezed together in people s communes that were supposed to anticipate communism. There, steel production became the most important. Cutlery, pots and agricultural implements were thrown into millions of backyard blast furnaces.
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