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In short, the Great Leap Forward was a politically-exacerbated famine in China, whereby 45 MILLION innocent civilians were purposefully starved to death, in the course of 4 years, under direct orders from Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, making it one of the largest human slaughters in the history of mankind. In his revealing book, Dikötter explains that Mao, deluded with visions of China becoming a world superpower under his reign, thought that locking up the entire peasant population of China in labor communes, to generate steel and wheat around the clock was a good idea. What resulted, instead, was corrupted metals, falsified harvest reports and millions of people being worked, literally, to death. Present-day CPC leaders like to pretend that this incident never occurred, which makes this book even more valuable. -- http://listverse.com/