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Mao promoted a policy of disposing of "rightist" opponents and sharing the wealth in state-run 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. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces at the expense of food production. 45 million people perished in [[famine]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5NsMWCHDStQC</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>
Mao promoted a policy of disposing of "rightist" opponents and sharing the wealth in state-run 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. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces at the expense of food production. 45 million people perished in [[famine]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5NsMWCHDStQC</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>
In 2009 Prof. Chen Lin of the Beijing Foreign Studies University said of Solomon Adler,
{{quotebox|"Sol Adler, as well as two other friends of China, [[Jack Service]] and Frank Coe, confronted [[McCarthyism|the Joseph McCarthy persecution]]. So Sol left the US to stay in the [[UK]]. During this period, he visited China many times and in various ways introduced New China to the outside world. His book ''The Chinese Economy'' in 1957 won worldwide acclaim. In 1962, when the Chinese people were facing great difficulties at home and abroad, Sol Adler resolutely decided to come and settle in China.
He said, "I have come to settle in China for three reasons: First, I have all along had great trust and confidence in the Chinese people and their leaders; second, I have all along had unshakable faith in the cause of [[socialism]]; and third, I hope to stay in China for as long as possible and work for world peace and the friendship between the Chinese people and the peoples of the world. I want to devote my whole life to the cause of socialism.".<ref>[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2009-09/05/content_8658159.htm China Daily, Sol Adler, a soulful friend (China Daily) Updated: 2009-09-05 07:39 ]</ref>}}
Chinese [[historical revisionism]] now refers to The Great Leap Forward as The Three Years of Disasters. Mao's successor [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed the death toll to be only 16 million.<ref> ''Mao: The Real Story'', by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472.</ref>
Chinese [[historical revisionism]] now refers to The Great Leap Forward as The Three Years of Disasters. Mao's successor [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed the death toll to be only 16 million.<ref> ''Mao: The Real Story'', by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472.</ref>