It's no exaggeration to say, many of these New Deal economists and civil servants in the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] of the 1950s fled to [[Maoist]] [[China]] to implement their real ambitions after they were suspected of attempting to subvert and overthrow the US [[Constitution]] and government.<ref>Unlike the landlords of sharecroppers, these former American civil servants turned Chinese Communist civil servants simply outlawed "landlordism," and exterminated the landlords, saving the state treasury billions in agricultural subsidies.</ref> Their time in China is memorialized in history as the [[Three Years of Disasters]]. | It's no exaggeration to say, many of these New Deal economists and civil servants in the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] of the 1950s fled to [[Maoist]] [[China]] to implement their real ambitions after they were suspected of attempting to subvert and overthrow the US [[Constitution]] and government.<ref>Unlike the landlords of sharecroppers, these former American civil servants turned Chinese Communist civil servants simply outlawed "landlordism," and exterminated the landlords, saving the state treasury billions in agricultural subsidies.</ref> Their time in China is memorialized in history as the [[Three Years of Disasters]]. |