History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
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The Effects of Killing Birds
The government and public were responsible for the deaths of anywhere between 1.5 billion rats, a billion sparrows or 220 million pounds of flies. In 1959, researchers at China's Academy of Sciences found that in autopsies on a group of dead sparrows,. they discovered that the majority of the contents and the stomach of these sparrows was insects rather than grains.
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