History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
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The Great Leap Forward
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.
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