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==Human rights, security police, and public health==
==Human rights, security police, and public health==
===Three years of disasters===
:{{Main article|Great Leap Forward}}
The Great Leap Forward was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in China, instituted by Mao Zedong, which included collectivizing farmland. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces to raise China's steel output. The whole ill-conceived venture resulted in widespread famine, economic disaster and what modern Chinese history now refers to as Three Years of Disasters. As estimates vary, the Communist inspired democide was believed to result in the deaths of at least 45 million people.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5NsMWCHDStQC</ref> Party Secretary [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed the death toll to be 16 million, while the lowest estimate is 8 million <ref> ''Mao: The Real Story'', by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472.</ref>
===Tiananmen Square democracy protests massacre===
===Tiananmen Square democracy protests massacre===
[[File:Wmr1a.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Remains of what used to be [[human being]]s in the Tiananmen Square [[democracy]] protests.<ref>http://www.cnd.org/HYPLAN/yawei/june4th/</ref>]]
[[File:Wmr1a.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Remains of what used to be [[human being]]s in the Tiananmen Square [[democracy]] protests.<ref>http://www.cnd.org/HYPLAN/yawei/june4th/</ref>]]