"This is not something exactly that the government wants to spread knowledge of around the world," he says. "You cannot be honest about it as it would jeopardize the strength and stability of the regime." He outlines Mao's reforms and how he was handling the government, his purges,. All the different stuff that was happening. The steps that would be necessary to create this blind, fanatical devotion to his policies.
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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