
boariskarloff
The greatest man-made disaster in history will always be the commodification of basic necessities. Millions annually gone— not because the water/food doesn’t exist, but because it is economically inaccessible to them.Congratulations! This might be the dumbest post I’ve ever seen in this community. You’re citing a death ticker that isn’t measuring starvation. It guesses a number by applying the highest global estimates of all malnutrition-linked deaths, which is nothing like the documented starvation during the Great Leap Forward.
Again it is statistically not possible for him to be a mass murderer because of the immediate improvements to healthcare and education afterwards ballooned life expectancy. The chairman made mistakes but again, he made correct decisions also. Consider as well that the socialist project in China was heavily besieged by the outside world. China was embargoed.
We all make mistakes but those mistakes usually don't result in the brutal deaths of tens of millions. Also embargos were not even close to the biggest cause of the famine, Mao killing millions of sparrows for no reason (causing the insect population to explode) was probably the biggest factor along with forced collectivization and their debt to the USSR