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"At the end of the Great Leap, which killed millions, Mao approved a meeting which convened 7000 party secretaries from county level and up. Existing Great Leap policies were repudiated. Some even directly criticized Mao,”

The Great Leap killed nobody, and nobody starved to death during the Three Difficult Years. Mao had spent 20 years feeding million-man armies on the march, under fire, and he ensured that everyone got something to eat every day.

The entire story was concocted by a German professor (and Chiang Kaishek fan) who was paid $2 million by the US and UK Governments for his efforts.

But there are no–zero–contemporary accounts of starvation in China, whether by the CIA (tasked with monitoring the success of America's Grain Embargo) or by the dozens of journalists then roaming the countryside.

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