The Effects of Mao's Development Strategy on the Romanian Economy

Romania's economic growth fell from 10% in the early 1970s to 3% in 1980, with food and other consumer goods becoming very short in supply. Nikolai Ciao Cescu has his kinds of canny-ness, but they are more limited than Mao. He might have known that if he'd actually gotten an accurate look at what was going on in China. And so this is going to be a fucking, this is kind of Romania's version of the Great Leap Forward, and like the Great Leap forward, it does not work very well.