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Excellent video clips: Chairman Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward -         

Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: abian_chen
Date: Jul 29, 2008 18:31

If you want to know what really happened in Mao’s disastrous Great
Leap Forward (including Great Chinese Famine, Backyard Furnace, etc)
which caused the death of tens of millions of Chinese people from 1958
to 1961. Here are excellent video clips, a part of 6-hour Chinese
documentary film "China - A Century of Revolution":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzSMxNsy7XQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qU0dYyIowc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDXZyyv8BOw&feature=related

On Jul 29, 8:45 pm, ltlee1 hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 29, 7:40 pm, "AleXX" wrote:
>
>> Finally, the no hair bird uses his typical word "garbage" against you !
>
> Miay be Baldeage is right.
>
> Basically, the famine lasted for three years. It is one thing to blame
> bad policy for a short lived event. It is difficult to pin the famine
> to policy for three years. For example, let us say the deep plowing
> and the concentrated planting method were bogus. It would fool the
> farmers for one year. But for thrree years? The same reeason applis to
> governmental abuse. The farmers might be willing to send in more food
> for one year despite the fact that they did not have enough for
> themselves. But for the second year and the third years after they had
> suffered? Were the people really that dumb?
>
> Undernutrition and malnutrition could last for decades under a
> capitalistic system. Because the determining factor is not the
> availability of food but the availabiity of money to buy the food. It
> is a problem in distribution. In this case, one can link
> undernutrition and malnutrition to policy such as cut back in welfare.
> But China's case is more a production problem and due to natural
> causes.
>
>
>
>
>
>> gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>>news:089f34cf-af9d-494d-a9db-2fa1b7e79d84@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>> So many references to Mao’s Great Leap Forward have been presented
>> last several days but nothing is better than the following video clips
>> from 6-hour Chinese documentary film “China – A Century of
>> Revolution”. If you are interested in what really happened during
>> Mao’s Great Leap Forward (Backyard Furnace, Great Chinese Famine
>> (1959-1961)... Excellent video!
>
>
>> On Jul 29, 7:32 pm, baldeagle yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>
>>> On Jul 30, 7:18 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" my-deja.com>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>> So many references to Mao’s Great Leap Forward have been presented
>>>> last several days but nothing is better than the following video clips
>>>> from 6-hour Chinese documentary film “China – A Century of
>>>> Revolution”. If you are interested in what really happened during
>>>> Mao’s Great Leap Forward (Backyard Furnace, Great Chinese Famine
>>>> (1959-1961)... Excellent video!
>
>>> Propaganda GARBAGE- Hide quoted text -
>
>> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
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