The intellectuals, anyone who doubted the great and glorious communist plan that was going to drive them into a utopia, they were gone. All that mattered was Mao's vision. And all these trends indicated that a catastrophe was brewing, and no one was speaking out. So as that disaster began to unfold in 1959, the party, the individuals, the few people who were still left who started to question things, they tried to do something.
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Instead it would result in the death of millions.
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