Ep. 4 | The Great Leap Forward
The China History Podcast
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Ma's Great Leap Forward
Mou never lived to see china overtake all the industrialized economies in the world by messing with the established order in the countryside. Miles's great lyap forward policies, coupled with some bad luck with the weather, caused the worst famine ever seen on this earth since recorded history. It would take the first half of the 19 sixties to clean up the wreckage of this man made catastrophe and return a yields to where it had been in 19 57.
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