The Chinese Communist Party and Mao's Famine

Some argue that the fami dets were intentional, as in it was mao and the chinese communist party targeting people to kill political dissidents. That logically makes no sens exactly, exactly. But what we do know is that social development, like what was happening in china, for example, causes a decline in birth rates. And so when birth rates declined, we're talking about enormous numbers of people who weren't born that demographers are counting as having died.

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