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Mao’s Great Famine

In the late 1950s, thousands of Chinese farmers starved to death while toiling on massive irrigation projects, under orders to meet Mao Zedong’s outlandish expectations for growth. Most laborers didn’t speak up because they feared the authorities would label them rightists.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor

Nov 2, 2010

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