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===Three years of disasters===
===Three years of disasters===
:{{Main article|Great Leap Forward}}
:{{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>
Mao promoted a policy of disposing of opponents and sharing the wealth in cooperatives. Mao declared an intention to overtake [[the West]] in 15 years. Two former [[New Deal]] economists, [[Frank Coe]] and [[Solomon Adler]], were recruited as advisers. 45 million people perished in [[famine]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone</ref> According to the [[Japanese]] [[Wikipedia]], "It is the socialist policy with the highest number of casualties in the world."<ref>https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%BA%8D%E9%80%B2%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96</ref>
The Great Leap Forward was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in China, 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>
===Cultural Marxism Revolution===
===Cultural Marxism Revolution===