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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Consequence...
> The failure of agricultural policies, the movement of farmers from agricultural to industrial work, and weather conditions led to millions of deaths from severe famine. Many also died from quota-based executions instituted by government officials. The economy, which had improved since the end of the civil war, was devastated.
See Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts