Over 45 million people died in China’s embrace of Communism. From 1958 to 1976, the “Great Leap Forward” as it was called, sacrificed millions of people to the ideas of forced collectivism and big government.
Mao Zedong criminalized the ownership of private farms, forced people into industrial labor, and engaged in one of the deadliest mass killings in human history, killing far more than Adolf Hitler ever did. Hitler killed 30 million, but Mao was responsible for approximately 60 million deaths. And woefully, those deaths were all in vain, as political economist Dwight Perkins explained: “enormous amounts of investment produced only modest increases in production or none at all. … In short, the Great Leap was a very expensive disaster.”
The following documentary on Mao’s Great Famine is required watching for those who don’t know understand how there could have been someone worse than Hitler, in terms of number of people killed. We shared this documentary today in hopes that you’ll share it with your friends and people who extol the virtues of Communism, while believing that somehow Fascism was worse. The reality is, they are two wings of the same bird. That bird is authoritarianism. Watch and leave your comments below.
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