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History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
The One-Top Policy of the Chinese Government
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One in 20 Chinese people were starving to death. Leaders padded their numbers of food so that they got taxed at a higher rate and the government ended up taking even way more than was produced. "This is one stupid event after the other," says author, who has done dumb events in history episodes for his work.
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