Study China 50 or 500 years before Mao or mass media and 50 years after when they lift 800,000 peasants out of poverty and challenge the United States. Maybe you’re the one who needs a history lesson.
My grandmother witnessed the great famine herself in the 1960s until 1980s. We sent lots of money and clothing to our relatives there in Fujian province. Farming was not allowed at that time. We even sent rice, we did whatever we can to keep our clan survive. Those time must be told . The whole world knew about it. Even animals knew it .
You can go further more: Actually Mao had few real power at 1958.A point must be known is that The Chairman of Republic of China at 1958－1961 wasn't him but Liu Shaoqi.
@@alvicyon9016 what the heck you talking about? Basic common sense:chairman of PRC holds no power at all,all power is in the chairman of the party,which is mao.
@@arandomchinese6706 Mao can't always held the top authority, he is just a common person, not a superman who can complete all things by himself. Mao's authority came from party members (bureaucracy and public) who back up him--the real condition is just opposite to the one your said.
@@arandomchinese6706 Then the bureaucracy system gradually betrayed the oath of serving the people from 1950. Many administers of the government started to grab interest from people.
Thank you for uploading this documentary. I knew a little about communism in China during this period, but I hadn't known it was this bad. I vaguely knew about the famine because I had a 1950s women's magazine from my Grandad's house in the early 1980s which mentioned it in an article. Even then I didn't know the full extent of how many Chinese people starved to death. I remember the article quoted a British teenage girl crying at the dinner table saying to her parents how could they eat and enjoy their dinner knowing the Chinese people were starving. This was a time when British people were still on rationing!
The fact that Mao used the death of millions of peasants as a strategy to achieve what he wanted truly proves how sadistic and evil he truly was and heavily makes people question why the people of China continue to worship him as a god.
Because to admit the atrocities of Mao is to admit that the foundation of communism is unsound. It is to admit that sycophantic devotion, which is still demanded by Xi, can have terrible consequences. 36 to 45 million people starved to death and Mao is a Chinese hero
Mao Zedong liquidated 5 million landlords (Hope the numbers are true for those parasites!) defeated the fascist Kuomintang whom are Japanese collaborators during the Chinese Civil War and liberated Tibet from the corrupt Dalai Lama. Collectivization and industrializing China ending centuries of famine, doubled the life expectancy and raised the literacy rate from 20% to 95% and lifting 100s millions of the Chinese people out of mediaevalism an into the modern world.
@@kolontaialexis3567 True but he was put through Hell due to Mao Zedong's fragile ego. Something that he most certainly did not deserve under any circumstances.
I'm from America, collective farming NEVER WORKED. Stalin was a paranoid failure, of course he didn't tell Mao that communism was a failure or that Soviet industry was first built in America and then shiped to the Soviet Union and reassembled. Stalin's people didn't know jack shit.
@@lightupskechers488 But you trust that one and only STATE SPONSORED and CONTROL China's Media, I bet. Funny how easy it is to shift everything with "Western Media".
Whats really sad is that North Korea is repeating Mao's mistakes. I feel for N.Koreans and the Chinese people of yesteryear who suffered so greatly whilst their great leaders got fatter and more narcissistic. Lui was a good man.
These dictators helped create the movements to throw the fat out! North Korea was profoundly bombed by us in the early 1950s and in 1953 we even bombed all their dams after running out of military targets. Since then we having sanctioned their public, cutting off trade and doing all in our power to limit their progress. That is their problem, it is not inherent to their structure or leadership. If we leave these alone, stop flying out b52s around their borders, and end trade restrictions, we will discover them to be amazingly reasonable, peaceful and having a high quality of life. What needs to change: for us to respect sovereignty of others and end our rampant interference, oppression and sanctioning all around the wold.
It was not a natural phenomena the famine was brought about by his culling of the sparrows...the sparrow campaign (打麻雀运动), this led to huge amounts of crop eating insects that would normally be eaten by the sparrows eating the crops to put it in simple terms. Therefore it was self inflicted.
It's a contributing factor but nowhere close to the main reason. China who had been an agricultural country for millennia never had people die by the millions regardless of any natural or man made disasters. The famine was planned and deliberate. Whatever crop harvested was confiscated to supply for the city, enjoyed by party officials and spent on foreign aid and trade. Militia locked villages down to prevent anyone from leaving and seeking refuge outside.
That's not true. Mao started a campaign to blame the food shortages that already started on sparrows. When everyone started culling the birds, it made it worse. But the food shortages from the forced collective farming was already happening. Blaming the sparrows was to prevent people from thinking the system of farming might be the problem.
Mao Zedong tried to persuade Kim Il-Sung to follow China and exterminate all the sparrows in the DPRK but he had the very good sense to ignore such ideas. Once Liu Shoaqi and Zhou Enlai had managed to gain a degree of control they requested that the DPRK and the USSR to urgently send as many sparrows as they possibly could!
Death population of Mao's great famine within the three years is over any of the wars or massacres you mentioned above. By the way, there are many works (articles, books, documentaries, film) done by westerners on the evils of colonization (which has been completely condemned since WW2 in the western world). However, while the westerners have had such deep reflection, Chinese people don't even feel guilty for their colonization of Tibet and Xinjiang!!!
It's an Asian thing... Smiling and laughing is like what the other person said. Sometimes Asian people will laugh or smile and it will mean that they're nervous or expresses discomfort differently.
There was no water shortage at all and those three years had normal harvests. I was told by my friendly peasant buddy in Anhuai安徽 country side that peasants rice were robbed from their homes by organized teams of people. There was a period of 143 days in which there was no one grain of rice and two couples had exchanged their babies for food and their extreme hunger forced them to have done that man-eating thing!!! .
God! This makes the Soviet Golodomor of 1932-33 look like a joy by comparison... and that's saying a lot. The Soviet Famine lasted 4-9 months and killed 6 million people in a population of 190 million. That's about 3%. The Great Leap Forward lasted 3 years and killed 45 million in a population of 660 million. That equals 7%. So it was longer and much deadlier both in numbers and per capita. However, the Cambodian and North Korean famines were deadlier per capita, killing 10-13% of their respective populations. Yes, Communism kills...
Well, In 1941, in Bengal, 3 million were starved to Death thanx to the British Empire. That's about 5% of the population in the region. That was in only one state, in only one year, so way more Indians died due to indifference and mismanagement.
Imagine torturing and intellectually neutering a population to the point that they get surprised when some panda gets found and they were surprised enough to say they didn't even know it existed when in reality no one was around any longer that actually lived in the area.
I really hope more people can appreciate how hard Deng Xiaoping must work to rebuild the devastated China after a lot of problem Mao caused. Deng Xiaoping economic reform is one of the most underrated moments in history.
true, but Mao's land reform laid the foundations for later economic reform...without the land reform and many landlords hard sacrifice the wealth can not be redistributed....history falls in its due course i guess... Mao was really idealist in his simple mind...i think he never meant for any harm for the Chinese people...just he is not that educated in economy.
@@AndyM4a1 The problem is... Mao want to follow Stalin footsteps while refuse to accept suggestion from people with proper knowledge. Mao won't believe his policy is bad for A, B, or C area until the problem became too big and he can't hide it anymore. Mao only cancel the shared land ownership to return to private land ownership after the death toll from that famine became too bad. Even Nikita Khrushchev already give Mao some warning to never follow Stalin footsteps because of how horrible USSR condition under Stalin leadership. Also, before people start saying "At least Mao win the civil war.", all the corrupt and idiots officer in the Nationalist military ranks did more damage to themself than the communist did. The nationalist army are basically in a suicide mode. Conclusion: Are Mao the most idiot or evil leader? No, because I think the idiot Empress Dowager Cixi did more damage during Qing dynasty than Mao.
@@yuvensiuslie3798 i agree la all i am saying is whatever mao did ...intentional or unintentional...the laid the foundation for later reform ...although the price is very very dear. history repeats itself most of the time...over the thousands of years of chinese history this shit happens over and over like a cycle
If it wasn't for a humanitarian like Mao Tse Tung, the world would now be plagued by the USA totalitarian regime that seeks to destroy all individual freedoms and liberty not to mention create more countless refugees and wars with their displacement of Palestinians and all across the middle east than they already have. Only China and Russia is standing in the western regimes way of complete global totalitarian nightmare
People should be held accountable for what happened. It was the people who create dictators. It was the people who enforce the dictators rules. It was the people who collectively should be held responsible for the famine. It responsibility should rest with the people.
EDIT: Later in the film i learned that Mao *knew* and approved of more mass starvation. Khrushchev visited from the USSR and asked Mao to not go down the same path as Stalin, but Mao went on and "increased production" meaning quotas, meaning increasing the death toll in the countryside to benefit the big cities and the Party, and i guess for his own ego on advancing China as a whole at the expense of millions of people starved to death. ------------- I understand that Mao *was* considered a great *military* leader of the guerrilla forces. His efforts at running bureaucratic governing failed, due to top down management imposed on collectivism. In a (relatively) free market society, without too much monopoly, each corporation is a dictatorship. If they don't get accurate numbers from lower managers, or if the upper level management or top executives are corrupt and venal, *one company* can totally fail. If *one* company fails, it's not the end of the world --- usually -- due to diversification of sources and resources in the economy. The US this month in 2018 has a de facto ban on Romaine Lettuce, based in part on large-scale industrial farming, but there's diversification of locations and there's other forms of lettuce. Diversification, on a company level or on a country level, can be more costly to employ, leading to reduced profits, and with less "efficiency" than single-sourcing anti-diversification and centralization. This can lead to disasters but typically smaller disasters that are more contained. In the US banking system from 1995 to 2007, all banks and firms were operating under the same "lassez faire" and Ayn Rand (a fiction writer) ethic of "freedom" meaning non-regulation of risk. Non-bank mortgage firms were almost completely outside oversight and regulation. Market leaders and many "experts" held -- or stated -- the naïve cultural belief that *systemic risk* across the entire system had been eliminated by the process of securitization, chopping up and distributing risky assets to various investors, to other banks and to retiree savings funds. Therefore, each bank decided to load up on increasingly large amounts of riskier risk (mortgage contracts likely or certainly doomed from the start), up to 90% towards the end of the bubble in 2004-2006, during which time it rose the fastest. (Some smaller banks tried to exercise more caution, but there's pressure to compete to appease financial market speculators and shareholders by showing similar profits .. albeit fraudulent profits.) Eventually banks ignored all sound standards for approving credit. This is *systemic fraud* and made the entire collective financial system unstable. With accelerating credit and accelerating risk (profits) came accelerating growth of debt overhang. This also made consumer markets financially unstable, because the accelerating "home values" were sitting on a foundation of sand ... or vapor of artificially rigged estimates. Note, centralization, but largely unavoidable except in tweaking 'degrees'. In the case of Mao's program, it was his "vision" of food production, imposed by himself, based on Marxist Theories of super-efficient production without wasteful competition, unbounded by realities, imposed by loyalty and patriotism and extreme fear of punishment, imposed by fanaticism to comply. In more diversified systems, there tends to be more systemic resiliency. SOME people usually become whistleblowers, maybe ignored by most, but are heard by some. If Mao and his top staff -- and the cadre beneath him -- had been okay with *HONEST FEEDBACK* about pending shortages & failures, and accepting of honest feedback from peasants about using bad methods, without severe retribution for "disloyalty", the results might have been corrected sooner or at least much less bad. Same for the finance-capitalism story above, although getting killed wasn't really a possibility. The responsibility fell to the cadre. Ordinary people were *relatively* powerless, outside of overt rebellion, because they feared higher ups would have imposed instant Death. Besides that, lower level workers are usually unable to see the bigger picture from their vantage point. In the banking crisis in the US, bank underwriter staff who go over loan documents looking for flaws, were *ordered* to just sign off on approval and push the paperwork through without checking facts. Emails were leaked after the fact showing bosses ordering this bypass. This meant instant booking of entire profits, profits which were actually received over years or at least months, instant payouts for shareholders/executives, instant bonuses for sales persons, and the problems wouldn't emerge until months or years later, due to the obscurity and sophistication of the ongoing diversified cover-up, and due to the structured "lag" before buyers would begin to default on monthly payments (which turned "performing" good loans into "non-performing" bad loans at slowly increasing rates). Without the robustness of the US govt, and an independent Federal Reserve able to absorb "toxic" debt-based assets, the entire US banking system AND connected aspects of Global Finance would have collapsed on itself, as everyone became unable to pay creditors .... at the same moment. Also banks would be unable and unwilling to issue new credit - including short-term credit that is vital for routine capitalist operations. With that, many non-financial corporations would have failed without a way to manage money & credit flows, including payments to vendors and employees, including routine trade in "futures contracts" that some companies use as an alternative to outright debt. Govt could not have been prepared to fire everyone and take over daily micro-banking operations with perhaps army officials or untrained office staff and bureaucrats. The only solution was to save the *system* of finance and corporate institutions ... which are like privatized 'agents' of the financial arm of the Govt. With it, govt also unethically saved and protected the responsible guilty executives. Nobody was shot in the head by the military. One can see that system as a partial-dictatorship or diversified-dictatorship, largely centralized but not completely. Mass Hunger or Starvation *WAS* a possibility, along with other deadly effects. Still, having less centralization and more resiliency would have likely helped the US and the rest of the connected world recover more quickly with less tragedy than China experienced with total top-down centralization and rigidity, even if the bailouts and risk transfers had not occurred. It still would have been a greater human disaster but not as bad. America's homeless population has grown dramatically and continues to be high, higher than strictly necessary.
I agree to an extent but the people could also choose to have the tyrant taken off renminbi notes but we know that won't happen because the CCP has an iron grip on power....
You said "without Mao there would be no moden China". "Modern"?? Don't you know how common and serious the corruption is and how inefficient the CCP works nowadays in China?! In 1982 the government proclaimed to execute "9-year free education", and until now it has not completely done!!! Poor people can't go to the hospital due to poverty but the relatives of the doctors and nurses don't even pay one cent in hospitals!!! Businessmen, scholars, ... have to make "guanxi" (關係) so as to get higher.
What kind of world record? Killing there own! Sorry but this record is kept by Pakistan! Do you ever read genocide by Pakistan armed forces in East Pakistan?
I read somewhere that most historical monuments you see in china nowadays are replicas because the originals were destroyed during the cultural revolution.
It's funny how conveniently similar MAO's name is with the internet acronym LMAO. As history would soon find out, the similarities are beyond just their names.
It mentions he wanted to reduce the peasant side population because he felt they dragged the cities down. Scary that a national leader can be so unfeeling toward his own people.
ileanajohnson.com/2014/03/mans-inhumanity-to-man-cannibalism-in-china/ The Laogai Research Foundation concluded in its 81 page report drawn from official records and published in October 2013, “Cannibalism in Communist China,” that the gruesome, widespread, and unspeakable acts of cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution were “motivated not by hunger nor by psychopathic illness but by an eagerness to prove one’s loyalty to the Party and Mao.”
the translation to English is disastrous, e.g., in 25:12, the rice left for each farmer after repying the debt to Soviet Union is about 80 pounds not some kilos.
God, this is heartbreaking, I think one survivor, about my age has trolled around YT. English is not real good, but his rants tell a sad story indeed. He picks on the ladies so I go after him, but his insults and rants eventually told me the truth. Jeeze guy, sorry it happened, but will you stop picking on the ladies please???
@@burennetteferriti7967 the gulags under Mao were only designed for the rebelling Warlords, Lardlords, KMT leaders and many others who gave Mao a lot of trouble.....other than that if you are obedeint to him you would be fine
This is true, however I wonder how, with the great famine and cultural revolution being so recent, the chinese people wouldn't be upset with and would even honor Mao given that he ended up killing so many and destroying so many aspects of their culture. Of course, I am not chinese and never experienced life in china in the first half of the 20th century so I'm sure there must be more to the story.
(3) What political or economical theories or empirical studies support the assertion that in 1950s-60s Mao's policy is the ONLY or the BEST plausible solution?? (4) After WW2, no countries including Japan even thought of conquering China! If so, please give EVIDENCE. I've just heard of such "strange theory" from the CCP and fenqing (憤青)！ (5) Why didn't you say that if there were no Mao, KMT would govern the WHOLE China and later passed over to a full democratic system, exactly like Taiwan??
well there was the amred conflict at the ussuri river 1969 and the political tension between the udssr and china leading up to it so there was a war and probably a plan of war. this is an article, surely an assesement/opinion not all people share, by a journalist who travelled to and beteeen both countries a lot, who describes signs of war preparation, theres multiple articles like that from different years. of course a lot of his things are just speculation but hes a man that makes, in a sense, good speculations because he knows a lot about the issues... www.nytimes.com/1979/02/27/archives/sovietchinese-war.html
(1) Your "theory" has been empirically falsified by the fact that after the Land Reform, the Great Leap, and even the Cultural Revolution, the peasants did not possess the same rights as the citizens in the cities did, and most of them are still very poor economically and politically until now. In fact the bad traditional mindset has long existed in the CCP's system, only in different forms. (2) No one can justify massacre using political reasons. Otherwise, Japanese could do the same for WW2.
I just read the book "Tombstone" from Yang Jisheng, the historian in the documentary. So impressive to read his story and the story of the millions of people that suffered under this evil ideology called communism. I can certainly recommend everyone to read his book.
Mao was a terrible leader and his regime was a disaster, but don't take your sources from that book, it is not written by a historian and barely uses any sources. If you go against a Communist using this book you will be rightfully humiliated for using made up information.
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This should be mandatory at every school in the world
The book even more so.
Mandatory my ass
@@isaacasunciongallardo9781 Castro Tankie. 🤢🤥🙄
Study China 50 or 500 years before Mao or mass media and 50 years after when they lift 800,000 peasants out of poverty and challenge the United States. Maybe you’re the one who needs a history lesson.
@@roberthorning8768 45 million lost their lives, compared to 800,000?
My grandmother witnessed the great famine herself in the 1960s until 1980s. We sent lots of money and clothing to our relatives there in Fujian province. Farming was not allowed at that time. We even sent rice, we did whatever we can to keep our clan survive.
Those time must be told .
The whole world knew about it. Even animals knew it .
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I'm sorry for your loss 💜🙏🙏
Yep We all remember . Hong Kong folks send money and food to Fukien ,Guangtung and GuangXi
Make China Taiwan again 👍
@@Jan-mu6vs LOL Taiwan is China the official name is called " Republic of China'
That was great thanks..
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I never heard of this whole famine event until today.
You can go further more:
Actually Mao had few real power at 1958.A point must be known is that The Chairman of Republic of China at 1958－1961 wasn't him but Liu Shaoqi.
Because Communists are very good at burying such tragedies.
@@alvicyon9016 what the heck you talking about? Basic common sense:chairman of PRC holds no power at all,all power is in the chairman of the party,which is mao.
@@arandomchinese6706 Mao can't always held the top authority, he is just a common person, not a superman who can complete all things by himself.
Mao's authority came from party members (bureaucracy and public) who back up him--the real condition is just opposite to the one your said.
@@arandomchinese6706 Then the bureaucracy system gradually betrayed the oath of serving the people from 1950. Many administers of the government started to grab interest from people.
Thank you for uploading this documentary. I knew a little about communism in China during this period, but I hadn't known it was this bad. I vaguely knew about the famine because I had a 1950s women's magazine from my Grandad's house in the early 1980s which mentioned it in an article. Even then I didn't know the full extent of how many Chinese people starved to death. I remember the article quoted a British teenage girl crying at the dinner table saying to her parents how could they eat and enjoy their dinner knowing the Chinese people were starving. This was a time when British people were still on rationing!
The fact that Mao used the death of millions of peasants as a strategy to achieve what he wanted truly proves how sadistic and evil he truly was and heavily makes people question why the people of China continue to worship him as a god.
Because to admit the atrocities of Mao is to admit that the foundation of communism is unsound. It is to admit that sycophantic devotion, which is still demanded by Xi, can have terrible consequences. 36 to 45 million people starved to death and Mao is a Chinese hero
Mao Zedong liquidated 5 million landlords (Hope the numbers are true for those parasites!) defeated the fascist Kuomintang whom are Japanese collaborators during the Chinese Civil War and liberated Tibet from the corrupt Dalai Lama.
Collectivization and industrializing China ending centuries of famine, doubled the life expectancy and raised the literacy rate from 20% to 95% and lifting 100s millions of the Chinese people out of mediaevalism an into the modern world.
I could imagine the former Chinese emperors have been rolling around their graves over and over again on Mao at that time.
Actually they were looking at each other, saying "this fat slob outdo our shit when we were sitting there"
Liu Shoaqi warned Mao Zedong that "People write books about canabalism you know!" This would cost Liu Shoaqi his life.
At least he's been rehabilitate
@@kolontaialexis3567 True but he was put through Hell due to Mao Zedong's fragile ego. Something that he most certainly did not deserve under any circumstances.
*He went to Stalin for advice ?!? lMao 🤣🤣🤣*
Dude which country are you from?
@@aren2naga92 countries are only a concept in your mind
I'm from America, collective farming NEVER WORKED. Stalin was a paranoid failure, of course he didn't tell Mao that communism was a failure or that Soviet industry was first built in America and then shiped to the Soviet Union and reassembled. Stalin's people didn't know jack shit.
@@aren2naga92 I'm from Dudelandia.
45 million is an UNDER-estimate.
Overall, from 1949 to 1976, the CCP murdered about 100 million Chinese people.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz that's an ignorant statement.
karl bahena ikr its western media what do u expect
@@lightupskechers488 But you trust that one and only STATE SPONSORED and CONTROL China's Media, I bet.
Funny how easy it is to shift everything with "Western Media".
Cuong Nguyen lol was that a roast or insult or what?
Whats really sad is that North Korea is repeating Mao's mistakes. I feel for N.Koreans and the Chinese people of yesteryear who suffered so greatly whilst their great leaders got fatter and more narcissistic. Lui was a good man.
Everyone feels sorry for the common people in every country who are murdered by dictators, but no one ever does anything about it.
These dictators helped create the movements to throw the fat out! North Korea was profoundly bombed by us in the early 1950s and in 1953 we even bombed all their dams after running out of military targets. Since then we having sanctioned their public, cutting off trade and doing all in our power to limit their progress.
That is their problem, it is not inherent to their structure or leadership. If we leave these alone, stop flying out b52s around their borders, and end trade restrictions, we will discover them to be amazingly reasonable, peaceful and having a high quality of life. What needs to change: for us to respect sovereignty of others and end our rampant interference, oppression and sanctioning all around the wold.
All lies about Mao
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz are you telling me that i should personally challange Kim jong un for the rule of North Korea?
@@chanalex8358 elaborate
It was not a natural phenomena the famine was brought about by his culling of the sparrows...the sparrow campaign (打麻雀运动), this led to huge amounts of crop eating insects that would normally be eaten by the sparrows eating the crops to put it in simple terms. Therefore it was self inflicted.
It's a contributing factor but nowhere close to the main reason. China who had been an agricultural country for millennia never had people die by the millions regardless of any natural or man made disasters. The famine was planned and deliberate. Whatever crop harvested was confiscated to supply for the city, enjoyed by party officials and spent on foreign aid and trade. Militia locked villages down to prevent anyone from leaving and seeking refuge outside.
That's not true. Mao started a campaign to blame the food shortages that already started on sparrows. When everyone started culling the birds, it made it worse. But the food shortages from the forced collective farming was already happening. Blaming the sparrows was to prevent people from thinking the system of farming might be the problem.
Mao Zedong tried to persuade Kim Il-Sung to follow China and exterminate all the sparrows in the DPRK but he had the very good sense to ignore such ideas. Once Liu Shoaqi and Zhou Enlai had managed to gain a degree of control they requested that the DPRK and the USSR to urgently send as many sparrows as they possibly could!
That is the reason why communism doesn't work
All of western propaganda about great famine are LIE
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回顧歷史不是為了批判，是為了後世子孫承擔責任。
When leader's ideas are crazy peoples are the who are going to pay. But the leaders will continue to be praised forever.
Crazy but true
Legacy
Oh my who knew Khrushchev had a heart...this is so sad what Mao did.Most evil ever😟
Stalin werent much better innit
Nikita wasn't too bad , he was better than Stalin. Stalin was animal, as bad as Hitler.
Mao was worse than Hitler.
All of western propaganda about great famine are LIE
@Fearless Warrior What?
The Great Leap backwards
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How is it now in China? Is this still going on?
Just one more video the CCP doesn't want their people to see. Yes, I'm a poet and I didn't even know it.
Death population of Mao's great famine within the three years is over any of the wars or massacres you mentioned above. By the way, there are many works (articles, books, documentaries, film) done by westerners on the evils of colonization (which has been completely condemned since WW2 in the western world). However, while the westerners have had such deep reflection, Chinese people don't even feel guilty for their colonization of Tibet and Xinjiang!!!
Stupid lie about great leap and Chairman Mao
@@chanalex8358 brainwashed commie
@@abdussami1905 Seems you are not brainwashed .
@@chanalex8358 你为什么说着英文？
然而现实是你压根拿不出什么当年“惨剧”的影象与照片，甚至把民国的拿来充数，老百姓的集体记忆被官方与西方合力篡改，你若真想得知当年的情况就不该只采访农村，还应该去问问数量更多，体会更深的农民工。
Another example of applied communism. Sometimes capitalist societies have bread lines. Sometimes communist societies have bread.
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What a waste of manpower during that time , imagine more than thousands of people focus on killed sparrows
I mean atleast they gain skill from marksmanship lol
These vids are so captivating and horrifying I feel I need a dark room and a bowl of popcorn.
Is it weird they smile when talking about people starving, stepping on corpses, etc? This type of nightmare continues in North Korea today.
In most parts of China and SEA smiling and giggling is an indication of nervousness.
It's an Asian thing... Smiling and laughing is like what the other person said. Sometimes Asian people will laugh or smile and it will mean that they're nervous or expresses discomfort differently.
This should be watched by every American student. Wonder of communism
Unbelievable. Shocking.
Reform: The government takes from one and gives to favored supporters.
The government takes from the favored and keeps for itself.
Strictly from being an Americans perspective this show is great fun with an even jollier ending!
well, those chinese old guys that where being interviwed seem to be a lot of white americans disguised as chinese, what a clawn you are.
There was no water shortage at all and those three years had normal harvests.
I was told by my friendly peasant buddy in Anhuai安徽 country side that peasants rice were robbed from their homes by organized teams of people. There was a period of 143 days in which there was no one grain of rice and two couples had exchanged their babies for food and their extreme hunger forced them to have done that man-eating thing!!! .
There was no man eating thing liars
@@messianic_scam let's tell you something after 1 year your lie doesn't make sence and didn't become truth
I taught English for 12 years in Beijing. I love the Chinese people. God bless them.
China back then was so different and the rural area was totally different from the urban
God! This makes the Soviet Golodomor of 1932-33 look like a joy by comparison... and that's saying a lot. The Soviet Famine lasted 4-9 months and killed 6 million people in a population of 190 million. That's about 3%.
The Great Leap Forward lasted 3 years and killed 45 million in a population of 660 million. That equals 7%. So it was longer and much deadlier both in numbers and per capita.
However, the Cambodian and North Korean famines were deadlier per capita, killing 10-13% of their respective populations. Yes, Communism kills...
Well, In 1941, in Bengal, 3 million were starved to Death thanx to the British Empire. That's about 5% of the population in the region.
That was in only one state, in only one year, so way more Indians died due to indifference and mismanagement.
_Well, That Didn’t Work: A History of Communism_
So basically they just didn't know enough about farming. That can be fixed today with a modern understanding of agriculture.
Imagine torturing and intellectually neutering a population to the point that they get surprised when some panda gets found and they were surprised enough to say they didn't even know it existed when in reality no one was around any longer that actually lived in the area.
I really hope more people can appreciate how hard Deng Xiaoping must work to rebuild the devastated China after a lot of problem Mao caused.
Deng Xiaoping economic reform is one of the most underrated moments in history.
true, but Mao's land reform laid the foundations for later economic reform...without the land reform and many landlords hard sacrifice the wealth can not be redistributed....history falls in its due course i guess... Mao was really idealist in his simple mind...i think he never meant for any harm for the Chinese people...just he is not that educated in economy.
@@AndyM4a1 The problem is... Mao want to follow Stalin footsteps while refuse to accept suggestion from people with proper knowledge. Mao won't believe his policy is bad for A, B, or C area until the problem became too big and he can't hide it anymore.
Mao only cancel the shared land ownership to return to private land ownership after the death toll from that famine became too bad.
Even Nikita Khrushchev already give Mao some warning to never follow Stalin footsteps because of how horrible USSR condition under Stalin leadership.
Also, before people start saying "At least Mao win the civil war.", all the corrupt and idiots officer in the Nationalist military ranks did more damage to themself than the communist did. The nationalist army are basically in a suicide mode.
Conclusion:
Are Mao the most idiot or evil leader?
No, because I think the idiot Empress Dowager Cixi did more damage during Qing dynasty than Mao.
@@yuvensiuslie3798 i agree la all i am saying is whatever mao did ...intentional or unintentional...the laid the foundation for later reform ...although the price is very very dear. history repeats itself most of the time...over the thousands of years of chinese history this shit happens over and over like a cycle
@@yuvensiuslie3798 that sounds about right. So horrible how the common people had to suffer needlessly.
@@yuvensiuslie3798 why was the nationalist army that bad *
Thank you for sharing this documentary. More Chinese (on VPN) should watch it. Don't be defensive, watch it with an open mind.
Actually I think it’s stupid to defend a regime that literally kills tens of millions of your own kind.
I am Chinese and I am so grateful of Mao for saving millions of lives not to mention, our country
An open mind? You mean open yourself up to lies and distortions
If it wasn't for a humanitarian like Mao Tse Tung, the world would now be plagued by the USA totalitarian regime that seeks to destroy all individual freedoms and liberty not to mention create more countless refugees and wars with their displacement of Palestinians and all across the middle east than they already have. Only China and Russia is standing in the western regimes way of complete global totalitarian nightmare
@@TheTraveler2222 你是中国人那为什么不会中文？
Eight Moon by Bette Bao Lord
please read this book.
And Escape from Red China by
Robert Loh.
奇葩的国度 奇葩的民族
This should be identified as an insult to humanity rights..
PERSONAL STORY////TOMBSTONE////
People should be held accountable for what happened. It was the people who create dictators. It was the people who enforce the dictators rules. It was the people who collectively should be held responsible for the famine. It responsibility should rest with the people.
EDIT: Later in the film i learned that Mao *knew* and approved of more mass starvation. Khrushchev visited from the USSR and asked Mao to not go down the same path as Stalin, but Mao went on and "increased production" meaning quotas, meaning increasing the death toll in the countryside to benefit the big cities and the Party, and i guess for his own ego on advancing China as a whole at the expense of millions of people starved to death.
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I understand that Mao *was* considered a great *military* leader of the guerrilla forces. His efforts at running bureaucratic governing failed, due to top down management imposed on collectivism.
In a (relatively) free market society, without too much monopoly, each corporation is a dictatorship. If they don't get accurate numbers from lower managers, or if the upper level management or top executives are corrupt and venal, *one company* can totally fail. If *one* company fails, it's not the end of the world --- usually -- due to diversification of sources and resources in the economy.
The US this month in 2018 has a de facto ban on Romaine Lettuce, based in part on large-scale industrial farming, but there's diversification of locations and there's other forms of lettuce.
Diversification, on a company level or on a country level, can be more costly to employ, leading to reduced profits, and with less "efficiency" than single-sourcing anti-diversification and centralization. This can lead to disasters but typically smaller disasters that are more contained.
In the US banking system from 1995 to 2007, all banks and firms were operating under the same "lassez faire" and Ayn Rand (a fiction writer) ethic of "freedom" meaning non-regulation of risk. Non-bank mortgage firms were almost completely outside oversight and regulation. Market leaders and many "experts" held -- or stated -- the naïve cultural belief that *systemic risk* across the entire system had been eliminated by the process of securitization, chopping up and distributing risky assets to various investors, to other banks and to retiree savings funds.
Therefore, each bank decided to load up on increasingly large amounts of riskier risk (mortgage contracts likely or certainly doomed from the start), up to 90% towards the end of the bubble in 2004-2006, during which time it rose the fastest. (Some smaller banks tried to exercise more caution, but there's pressure to compete to appease financial market speculators and shareholders by showing similar profits .. albeit fraudulent profits.)
Eventually banks ignored all sound standards for approving credit. This is *systemic fraud* and made the entire collective financial system unstable. With accelerating credit and accelerating risk (profits) came accelerating growth of debt overhang. This also made consumer markets financially unstable, because the accelerating "home values" were sitting on a foundation of sand ... or vapor of artificially rigged estimates. Note, centralization, but largely unavoidable except in tweaking 'degrees'.
In the case of Mao's program, it was his "vision" of food production, imposed by himself, based on Marxist Theories of super-efficient production without wasteful competition, unbounded by realities, imposed by loyalty and patriotism and extreme fear of punishment, imposed by fanaticism to comply. In more diversified systems, there tends to be more systemic resiliency. SOME people usually become whistleblowers, maybe ignored by most, but are heard by some.
If Mao and his top staff -- and the cadre beneath him -- had been okay with *HONEST FEEDBACK* about pending shortages & failures, and accepting of honest feedback from peasants about using bad methods, without severe retribution for "disloyalty", the results might have been corrected sooner or at least much less bad. Same for the finance-capitalism story above, although getting killed wasn't really a possibility.
The responsibility fell to the cadre. Ordinary people were *relatively* powerless, outside of overt rebellion, because they feared higher ups would have imposed instant Death. Besides that, lower level workers are usually unable to see the bigger picture from their vantage point.
In the banking crisis in the US, bank underwriter staff who go over loan documents looking for flaws, were *ordered* to just sign off on approval and push the paperwork through without checking facts. Emails were leaked after the fact showing bosses ordering this bypass. This meant instant booking of entire profits, profits which were actually received over years or at least months, instant payouts for shareholders/executives, instant bonuses for sales persons, and the problems wouldn't emerge until months or years later, due to the obscurity and sophistication of the ongoing diversified cover-up, and due to the structured "lag" before buyers would begin to default on monthly payments (which turned "performing" good loans into "non-performing" bad loans at slowly increasing rates).
Without the robustness of the US govt, and an independent Federal Reserve able to absorb "toxic" debt-based assets, the entire US banking system AND connected aspects of Global Finance would have collapsed on itself, as everyone became unable to pay creditors .... at the same moment. Also banks would be unable and unwilling to issue new credit - including short-term credit that is vital for routine capitalist operations. With that, many non-financial corporations would have failed without a way to manage money & credit flows, including payments to vendors and employees, including routine trade in "futures contracts" that some companies use as an alternative to outright debt.
Govt could not have been prepared to fire everyone and take over daily micro-banking operations with perhaps army officials or untrained office staff and bureaucrats. The only solution was to save the *system* of finance and corporate institutions ... which are like privatized 'agents' of the financial arm of the Govt. With it, govt also unethically saved and protected the responsible guilty executives. Nobody was shot in the head by the military.
One can see that system as a partial-dictatorship or diversified-dictatorship, largely centralized but not completely.
Mass Hunger or Starvation *WAS* a possibility, along with other deadly effects. Still, having less centralization and more resiliency would have likely helped the US and the rest of the connected world recover more quickly with less tragedy than China experienced with total top-down centralization and rigidity, even if the bailouts and risk transfers had not occurred. It still would have been a greater human disaster but not as bad. America's homeless population has grown dramatically and continues to be high, higher than strictly necessary.
@@gg_rider Collectivized.
I agree to an extent but the people could also choose to have the tyrant taken off renminbi notes
but we know that won't happen because the CCP has an iron grip on power....
Chinese: I wonder why all our neighbors get so uneasy around us...
❤🎉
You said "without Mao there would be no moden China".
"Modern"?? Don't you know how common and serious the corruption is and how inefficient the CCP works nowadays in China?! In 1982 the government proclaimed to execute "9-year free education", and until now it has not completely done!!! Poor people can't go to the hospital due to poverty but the relatives of the doctors and nurses don't even pay one cent in hospitals!!! Businessmen, scholars, ... have to make "guanxi" (關係) so as to get higher.
哪有你说的那个严重，现在中国挺好的。执政没经验，难免会碰壁，现在暴露出问题是好的，解决了也就进步了。我支持那些提中共意见的人，但我不支持张口闭口就要推翻中共的人。政权更替导致社会动荡，有钱的逃到国外，受苦的都是底层人民大众。共产党也不是完全按照什么共产主义在搞，借鉴西方资本主义经验也很明显，把它叫共产党还是狗屎党都没有什么意义，只要找到适合中国发展道路就行。那些别有用心的，借抨击毛进而完全否定共产党，怂恿人民推翻中共的，其实都是西方走狗。我感觉up主多数是台独或港独分子。
我擦，才注意到你这是五年前写的，打扰打扰
没 经验， 那 为何 不选 有 知识 的？ 结果就 是 中国人 来 担。 比如 没 得吃。 你 认为 毛 没吃吗？他 先吃的 肥肥。 上 粱不 正。
你 本身 认为中国 很 好。 那样 好 的话， 不 用 改进 吗？ 中国失败就是 太 要 面子， 不 肯 看过去的不好 而 改进。
Mao Great Leap was a world record, but the imperealist kept him out of olympics, so he could not win world cup.
What kind of world record? Killing there own! Sorry but this record is kept by Pakistan! Do you ever read genocide by Pakistan armed forces in East Pakistan?
Countless artifacts and treasures were destroyed during this period.
I read somewhere that most historical monuments you see in china nowadays are replicas because the originals were destroyed during the cultural revolution.
Da ja vu, chairman Mao and Xi
6 Maoists didn't like the great tyrant being exposed...
Centrist Philosopher Mao was a pretty good leader san
Centrist philosopher that's cuz of Western narrative they think they are superior.
It’s amazing how many people are apathetic towards this.
Yeah and it's absolutely insane bc the peasants, what did they do to deserve this? They didn't stand a chance.
Pure evil.
32:20 So this is where Thanos took his inspiratin from?
It's funny how conveniently similar MAO's name is with the internet acronym LMAO. As history would soon find out, the similarities are beyond just their names.
in 1990 china whole economy was less than hong kongs.
So one question why chinese government did not import food when they noticed the famine.
That's due to the political reason that Mao wanted to demonstrate that the Chinese socialism was the most successful one.
It mentions he wanted to reduce the peasant side population because he felt they dragged the cities down. Scary that a national leader can be so unfeeling toward his own people.
Simple. He doesn't care
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Liar thats imperialism globalists thing
How do you say contraception in mandarin ?
Huge painting of Mao in the British Museum was very sad to see.
Amazing to see
Who else is studying Mao after Patrisse Cullors was happy her book was compared to Mao"s?
ileanajohnson.com/2014/03/mans-inhumanity-to-man-cannibalism-in-china/
The Laogai Research Foundation concluded in its 81 page report drawn from official records and published in October 2013, “Cannibalism in Communist China,” that the gruesome, widespread, and unspeakable acts of cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution were “motivated not by hunger nor by psychopathic illness but by an eagerness to prove one’s loyalty to the Party and Mao.”
Yes, but that's in the Cultural Revolution during 1966-1976. This documentary talks about the great famine during 1958-1962.
@@cflamss so the famine happened before mao's reign
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 No, Mao's reign was from 1949 to 1976.
@@cflamss so did mao cause the famine or not?
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 yes
the translation to English is disastrous, e.g., in 25:12, the rice left for each farmer after repying the debt to Soviet Union is about 80 pounds not some kilos.
Arcording to current Chinese government... This never happened
Same could be said about the demon wars in Japan you were in, Mr Rengoku. 😅😢
and it started with an add with Farrell Williams about being Happy - holy shit ...
God, this is heartbreaking, I think one survivor, about my age has trolled around YT. English is not real good, but his rants tell a sad story indeed.
He picks on the ladies so I go after him, but his insults and rants eventually told me the truth. Jeeze guy, sorry it happened, but will you stop picking on the ladies please???
The guy who linked this from that one commie banger, claiming it was a different song from the same release, is very clever
Coming here after reading Yu Hua's novel to live.
Mousey Dung🔥
something for Socialist teachers to watch
Teachers are just overpaid daycare workers so that women can participate in the labor force to increase tax revenue.
小粉红肯定认为 这是编造的
13:45 youd think that people working fields for decades would know that birds are important to reduce insects...
They didn’t have much of a choice. They were tortured and/or killed if they appeared to be critical of “Maoism” in any sort of way.
一個饑荒, 持續了三年, 餓死4500萬人, 五億以上的人挨餓, 浮腫.......這是人類史上唯一的紀錄, 學者統計, 三年大饑荒死亡的人數, 比中國二千年文明史上所有非正常死亡的人數總和還多!!
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, who killed most?
Mao killed more than Hitler and Stalin combined.
But at least Mao didn't send people into Gulags nor putting them into Holocaust like what both Hitler and Stalin have done
@@趙禹澤 Mao send one million into gulags in the Hundred Flower campaign
@@burennetteferriti7967 the gulags under Mao were only designed for the rebelling Warlords, Lardlords, KMT leaders and many others who gave Mao a lot of trouble.....other than that if you are obedeint to him you would be fine
AND besides the gulags under Mao were in better conditions and maintained than that of Hitler and Stalin
Its hard for people to admit to the crimes of honored national heroes. As an American i know this is true here as well.
This is true, however I wonder how, with the great famine and cultural revolution being so recent, the chinese people wouldn't be upset with and would even honor Mao given that he ended up killing so many and destroying so many aspects of their culture.
Of course, I am not chinese and never experienced life in china in the first half of the 20th century so I'm sure there must be more to the story.
(3) What political or economical theories or empirical studies support the assertion that in 1950s-60s Mao's policy is the ONLY or the BEST plausible solution??
(4) After WW2, no countries including Japan even thought of conquering China! If so, please give EVIDENCE. I've just heard of such "strange theory" from the CCP and fenqing (憤青)！
(5) Why didn't you say that if there were no Mao, KMT would govern the WHOLE China and later passed over to a full democratic system, exactly like Taiwan??
well there was the amred conflict at the ussuri river 1969 and the political tension between the udssr and china leading up to it so there was a war and probably a plan of war.
this is an article, surely an assesement/opinion not all people share, by a journalist who travelled to and beteeen both countries a lot, who describes signs of war preparation, theres multiple articles like that from different years. of course a lot of his things are just speculation but hes a man that makes, in a sense, good speculations because he knows a lot about the issues... www.nytimes.com/1979/02/27/archives/sovietchinese-war.html
有一个问题，为什么说领导人对大饥荒知道的特别清楚，然而刘少奇却对自己的家人和朋友死于饥荒毫不知情，在196几年才知道呢？
地方官拼命捂被子，中央与地方干部狼狈为奸（我设不切实际的标准，你放不切实际的卫星)。毛估计也察觉了刘对大跃进看法的改变并开始疏远他，比如中共关于大跃进的那份详细全国调查在销毁之前只有毛和周看过，没有到过刘少奇手中（后来他从地方得知真相后对毛撂下狠话“大饥荒人吃人，你我要上书”，从而决定了他文革时的凄惨下场）。
The great leap forward.
The green new deal.
Hi..can I use the footage from this documentary in an independent film? Can you please give me permission?
Brak mi swow...I have no clue o ment
What has Mao achieved then than creating hell to the Chinese?
Not "one of", the biggest one.
(1) Your "theory" has been empirically falsified by the fact that after the Land Reform, the Great Leap, and even the Cultural Revolution, the peasants did not possess the same rights as the citizens in the cities did, and most of them are still very poor economically and politically until now. In fact the bad traditional mindset has long existed in the CCP's system, only in different forms.
(2) No one can justify massacre using political reasons. Otherwise, Japanese could do the same for WW2.
At 14:11 did she actually say "they profilerated"?
Sounds like the Great Reset.
Sad history😭
Down with ccp
If they had told the world then there would have been humanitarian assistance. I hope he was not given Nobel peace prize
21:26 so Mao is a capitalist after all xD
45 MILIONS/////
Why is the guy at 26:22 laughing?
Socialism is as socialism does
Mao's socialism lab.
This will happen to my country SA o ce that madman julius takes power with his red overall telly tubbies.
I just read the book "Tombstone" from Yang Jisheng, the historian in the documentary.
So impressive to read his story and the story of the millions of people that suffered under this evil ideology called communism.
I can certainly recommend everyone to read his book.
Sparrows. Who knew.
Bullshit
Heartbreaking
mao knew but no one will say cos there not allowed freedom
evil mao,evil communism.
中國人就是要愛毛澤東啦
Please read the book: MAO the Unknown Story to know all about Mao
It is all very true!!!!!
Mao was a terrible leader and his regime was a disaster, but don't take your sources from that book, it is not written by a historian and barely uses any sources.
If you go against a Communist using this book you will be rightfully humiliated for using made up information.
Do the slogans and chants sound heartfelt and effectively encouraging in the Mandarin language? Is it only in translated form that they sound hokey?