Ma Was a Great Humanitarian

Even the chinese communist party has moderated its adulation of ma in recent years. They still hale him as a great hero, but there is increasingly some acknowledgment of the horrors brought about by the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. So they made these peasants do this very intensive cultivation of sereal crops to the exclusion of almost everything else. Is all completely stuff. You've got massive food shortages in the countryside when they are all supposed to be self sufficient. And so they're killing the peasants and threatening them for non-existent surplus grain that can be taken to the cities. That's not what happened. There was also a lot of misapplication of capital and forcing of the