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In the World Murder Olympics, Communists Take Gold and Silver!
It really will be different this time, right?
The biggest famine in human history was caused by communism, based on a bad idea and a stubborn decision to hold with ideology over reality. It was known as, ironically, The Great Leap Forward. Mao decided in 1957 that within 15 years, China could surpass the United Kingdom (The Guys Who Supply Evil Accents to Movies) in economic production. Mao was egged on to make this pronouncement based on Nikita Khrushchev’s 1957 pronouncement that in fifteen years that the U.S.S.R. would surpass the United States in economic production.
Spoiler alert – none of these things happened, and Bruce Willis was the ghost the whole time.
That’s the entire world death rate. Who says communism isn’t powerful!
The Great Leap Forward killed about 45 million people in China. Mao decided that he wanted to collectivize farming to consolidate power (more on this later). In addition to this, Mao also decided that to increase economic output, he’d have the peasants make steel. In their backyards. This worked about as well with an I.Q. above room temperature could have predicted, especially once the farmers started melting down the tools they farmed with to meet production targets, thus decreasing food amounts even more than replacing experienced farmers with office workers did.
Oops.
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In the World Murder Olympics, Communists Take Gold and Silver!
It really will be different this time, right?
The biggest famine in human history was caused by communism, based on a bad idea and a stubborn decision to hold with ideology over reality. It was known as, ironically, The Great Leap Forward. Mao decided in 1957 that within 15 years, China could surpass the United Kingdom (The Guys Who Supply Evil Accents to Movies) in economic production. Mao was egged on to make this pronouncement based on Nikita Khrushchev’s 1957 pronouncement that in fifteen years that the U.S.S.R. would surpass the United States in economic production.
Spoiler alert – none of these things happened, and Bruce Willis was the ghost the whole time.
That’s the entire world death rate. Who says communism isn’t powerful!
The Great Leap Forward killed about 45 million people in China. Mao decided that he wanted to collectivize farming to consolidate power (more on this later). In addition to this, Mao also decided that to increase economic output, he’d have the peasants make steel. In their backyards. This worked about as well with an I.Q. above room temperature could have predicted, especially once the farmers started melting down the tools they farmed with to meet production targets, thus decreasing food amounts even more than replacing experienced farmers with office workers did.
Oops.
Trigger warnings aplenty Read it all @
In the World Murder Olympics, Communists Take Gold and Silver!
