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History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward

History of Everything

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Collectivization: The First Step in Achieving Communism

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.

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