Mao's Great Famine | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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Published 2024-02-03
“Three years of natural disasters”: it is in these terms that the Chinese Communist Party today justifies this terrible outcome. But the tragedy was masked by an official lie, because while China was starving to death, the grain stores were full.
Based on previously unheard testimony by survivors, rare archive footage, secret documents and interviews with the leading historians on this catastrophe, this film provides, for the first time, an insight into the folly of the “Great Leap Forward”. It examines the mechanisms and political decisions that led to famine, stripping away the incredible secrecy surrounding the campaign, and exposing the lie which continues even today as to who was responsible, and the true human cost.
Documentary: MAO'S GREAT FAMINE
Directed by: Patrick Cabouat et Philippe Grangereau
Production: Arturo Mio, Dérives, R.T.B.F
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All Comments (21)
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What a great documentary. My grandparents died from the famine caused by "Great leap forward". My father survived since he was studying in a normal school with the food supplied by the government. He always regretted that he cannot take care of his parents. But if he was staying with his parents, he would also die.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” Always remember this. Think critically
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I remember my Late father drumming it into my brother and myself , to eat all our food up, as Millions of people in China were starving , I never really appreciated why he said that , till now .
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Every American needs to watch this video. We never learn from history so we are doomed to repeat it.
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My Fiancée is Chinese, and she told me her parents lived through that time. They were both haunted by what they saw and experienced until the day they died.
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This is the type of thing that happens when you let theory overcome practice and replace science with ideology and political cultism.
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The same happened in the USSR. They starved the rural areas in order to industrialize!!!😱😭😫
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Insane…. 45 million people and yet his ugly picture is still up?
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Glad this is available. This is a prime example of what misery can unfold when one leader consolidates all power amongst himself and his close followers. Fifty million deaths, unimaginable despair.
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I lived in China for a few years. When I asked my Chinese teacher about the Tian'an Men Square revolt back in 1989, she asked me as in shock how I knew that.
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If I was a high school history teacher I’d make all of my students watch. It’s such a masterclass in how politicians make lofty promises and mobilize the population against itself to consolidate power.
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My late father said to me what ever you become don't become a Communist. His mother, my Grandma escaped twice from Stalin's troops with her childhood family. Stalin hated Finnic tribes.
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And yet this guy's face is still printed on the money today 😐
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45,000,000 - Let that sink in! And yet, displaying the symbols of communism is allowed?
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Imagine being so dumb you kill all the sparrows for “stealing from the people” which in turn let all the bugs destroy crops for decades. Wow
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"'real communism' is choosing which of your children you're going to eat that night so they others can live." - Carl Benjamin
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Hitler is always described as the epitome of evil, but Stalin made Hitler look like a choirboy, and Mao made Stalin look like a Sunday school teacher.
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Historians estimate that Stalin (during his reign) killed an estimated (conservatively) 56,000,000 persons. Others peg the number at 60,000,000. Mao killed 45-55,000,000. Those numbers speak horrifically for the tragedy that unfolded in Russia (U.S.S.R.) and China (P.R.C.).
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Do you know that the majority of American young people know nothing about this topic.
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Redistribution never works. Never. It's also immoral.
