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- Jul 1, 2017
The article on the Great Leap Forward is schizophrenic as fuck. You have plenty of paragraphs that point out that killing tree sparrows helped cause a famine that killed between 15-45 million people, and that telling Chinese villagers to make steel in their backyard both failed to industrialize China and also contributed to a major famine. The overall tone is correctly negative, even if it's couched in a painful neutrality as if the Wikipedia commies are begrudgingly admitting it.

But then you have paragraphs like this citingg a communist writing in a communist magazine glorifies the Great Leap Forward in an article entitled "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward." Or using official stats to make blatantly false claims about China's economy (better stats, and stats which by no means are biased against China, show China's GDP per capita dropped by 20 percent from 1958 to 1962). There's also a paragraph below this about how awesome the Great Leap Forward was for women's rights in China.

But then you have paragraphs like this citingg a communist writing in a communist magazine glorifies the Great Leap Forward in an article entitled "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward." Or using official stats to make blatantly false claims about China's economy (better stats, and stats which by no means are biased against China, show China's GDP per capita dropped by 20 percent from 1958 to 1962). There's also a paragraph below this about how awesome the Great Leap Forward was for women's rights in China.