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The result was unusable scrap iron and a lack of pots to cook in. Ecological disaster Dikötter shows how to the pollution of vast areas, and how poorly planned irrigation and dam systems displaced millions and led to floods and droughts. The facilities were often of such poor quality that they were left as ruins. In an uncanny anticipation of Pol Pot, the villagers of Qingshui, Gansu, called these facilities killing fields.
Culture of lies of the nation s houses were destroyed. Mao used Stalin s methods from the famine moible number data disaster in the Ukraine in the thirties Increasing demands for grain to be handed over to the state. It led to local abuse of power and systematic false reporting and not in a few cases of moral decay in order to survive cannibalism. Summary executions Political control by party cadres, ruthless use of terror and arbitrary imprisonment.
With loss of livelihood and health, were combined with murder between and of the victims were killed through summary executions, torture and the political use of starvation. Cold blooded terror regime Mao received early reports about the state of affairs in the provinces, but insisted on his line. China had enough people. Mao said it cynically “Where there is not enough food, people will starve to death. It is better to let half the people die so that the other half can fill their bellies . Precisely because China had no form of political and social pluralism, no counterforce, no institutional arrangements for power shifts, no free media.
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