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Mao Zedong Part 2: The ‘Great Leap Forward’
Real Dictators
Mao's Great Famine
In 1959, Mao orders his party workers to extract a full third of all the available grain in China. The Chairman still has no doubt that his plan will herald China's meteoric rise to wealth and global domination with him at the helm. But there is neither the willpower nor the means to do much about it, unless someone goes way out on a limb.
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