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The Fucking Idiot Man

In 1958 chinese communist leader mausi dong decided sparrows were hurt in the country food supplies by eating too much stored grain his solution was to kill off china sparrows citizens were encouraged to poison and shoot sparrows as well as destroy their nest. The campaign was successful at hundreds of millions of sparrows died from 1958 to 1962 resulting in 20 to 30 million people dying from 1958 to 1962 what a fucking idiot man is this story created to explain one thing which is why they ratWhy they rats all the locusts took out of the shut up you really think they could kill all the sparrows in a way man oh come on ain't no

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