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S2 Ep2: Maoism, the Great Leap Forward / Famine and the Sino-Soviet Split

In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare

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The Propaganda Machine of the Great Leap

Massive people's communes became the agricultural setting for this part of the Great Leap. More than 20,000 people would be set in this impersonal relationship with farming the land. The party began increasing its expected figures for harvests based on the excesses that these communes are producing. It seems like the shortcut to communism might be working after all.

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