During the Korean War, going from 1950 to 1953, the Party would urge the population to protect its North Korean ally against the American led UN forces. This made the Chinese population with this newfound faith in a government that before all the previous governments had been failing over and over again. And what is the first step in achieving communism? Collectivization. So they just take people's stuff essentially. CPDistributed, I guess.
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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