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[[Image:Yi Gang Wei Gang Quan Mian Yue Jin.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A Great Leap Forward propaganda poster.]]

[[Image:Yi Gang Wei Gang Quan Mian Yue Jin.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A Great Leap Forward propaganda poster.]]

The '''Great Leap Forward''' (1958 to 1961) was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in [[China]], instituted by Chinese dictator [[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'''.  The [[Communist]] inspired [[democide]] resulted in the deaths of approximately 30 million people.

The '''Great Leap Forward''' (1958 to 1961) was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in [[China]], instituted by Chinese dictator [[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'''.  The [[Communist]] inspired [[democide]] resulted in the deaths of at least 45 million people.<ref>Frank Dikötter, ''[ Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962]'' (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010), ISBN 0802777686, p. 325</ref>

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