Post #2744074
2026-05-21 17:48 UTC
Ah I didn’t realise industrialising was a communist policy or that industrialising caused famine.
The actual reasons for the famine in reality were natural causes mixed with agricultural plans made with poor agronomic knowledge due to the backwardness of the country coming from the century of humiliation and a degree of poor reporting tradition held over from the feudal and landlord years.
None of these are “communist policy”.
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@Egriaga@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 17:52
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Red_Banners This was directly linked to the great leap forward
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@TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 22:34
I had a professor who explained this (as well as I can remember so long after) that the people over-reported yields because they wanted to please Mao (not out of fear of punishment, but out of gratitude). Is that what you mean by poor reporting, or was this professor off-base?