S2 Ep2: Maoism, the Great Leap Forward / Famine and the Sino-Soviet Split
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The Great Leap Forward
By the winter of 1958 even Mao had begun to look at some of these figures and while he was still you know more or less convinced that there had been this surge in productivity across the board. He's thinking okay maybe some people are going a little overboard with their estimations here. On the whole we're definitely going well. At the end of 1958 Mao looked back and said, during this past year there have been so many good things. Trails have been blazed. Many things have been realized about which we did not even dare to dream before. His vision of China pioneering its own path to communism seemed to be coming true.
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