History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
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The Great Leap Forward to Mao's Ideas
When Mao himself came to visit the countryside, locals would transplant crops from other fields. This was evidence for him that his ideas were working and he could do even more crazier things. So authorities accepted all of this evidence as just true or not public.
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