The Great Leap Forward

Between 20 and 40 million people dye nin the space of a couple of years here in the late 19 fifties, as a result of this great leap forward. The other big incident in chinese communist history was the cultural revolution from 19 66 up until the death of mao in te 76. And one of the craziest things about it is that for the first year or so, everyone conspired to lead ma to think that it was going great.