Both my parents lived through this era, and both have consistently summed it up in one simple sentence: "everyone who survived knew at least one person who died."
My father grew up in that era, he said a lot of people died, they didn’t have anything to eat and sometimes they ate wild grass, and got food poisoning and there’s no treatment, everyone was so malnourished, and he would immediately tell me that I can’t mention this to anyone in school.
@@duncancurtis1758 Geography matters, we are in the northeast region, where the Japanese originally occupied, then Russia invaded, they all wanted that piece of land, the soil is extremely fertile, we were famous for coal mines, there are mountains and rivers the people were living off. Even when I was little, I often went fishing…foraging with my friends for fun, but even we had all of those resources, so many people died. People up north and down south were pretty self-sufficient before the famine so not as much suffering. But people in the mid-China region where these documentaries talk about had the worst case.
My grandparents grew up in this era. Grandmother is incredibly short because of it and some of her younger brothers have stomach issues for life because of it. Its as if the starvation never ended for them. Most of my family hordes food now in chest freezers and dry storage because it is now a habit developed out of starvation trauma. Let the younger generation learn from the old...
@@CantHandleThisCanYa very ignorant of you to say. Mao was encouraging for large families at that time as this was after the 2nd World War and a continent spanning civil war. He promised that we would all have enough to eat and enough land to farm unlike under the Qing or the Nationalists. Are you going to blame my great grandparents for not having enough foresight to see bad times ahead under a leader who promised us that we would all at least not starve under his rule?
It's actually the exact opposite of what you're saying. In an agral society, having many kids is actually of huge economic benefit and importance. Not having offsprings was a death sentence.
@@maciejrogozinski8277 👍👍 Although believe it or not - these top tier political etc leaders have Type A Personalities to say the very least, this is actually built into our DNA. To survive we will need to overcome the DNA thing
I was born in China, 2000, and from my experience growing up and hearing all kinds of stories about the great famine, I got a sense that everybody around me knew what happened, but nobody talked about it in public. Just like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, everybody knew it (and are quite open to private discussions, you will be AMAZED how much they actually know about the event), it was just that nobody talked about it openly.
@@holdingsteadfast very true. But I would think you could discuss it with other friends that complain or grumble about the regime. I know it’s sensitive. I taught a class to a Chinese kid and talked about my life in Taiwan for 15 years. He couldn’t handle facts like they had their own passports, military, currency, democracy, and that he would need a visa if he wanted to visit. He was almost an adult. Dad refused to pay for the lesson. Great country and people being made stupid by terrible leaders.
@@MarkMark-xz4ff puts into perspective how much the govt controls their people. In the USSR its been said that 1 in 3 people were informants. I imagine it would be much worse in China as its both people and technology looking at you. If stories were told it would be in hushed tones, very private, and with only those you trust the most.
@@holdingsteadfast Yes. And China was modeled on this. You are right. Mao loved Stalin. Even Stalin told him to cool it and not go so aggressive with reforms but he didn’t listen.
I attended a gathering at a friend of my GF's house a couple of years ago. The host, an American white guy around age 70 at one point was talking about how marvelous modern day China was and how wonderful the Communist revolution was. How the people of China were so lucky to have been brought into the modern world by Mao. I replied, sure, if you can overlook the 50 million who died in the famines. He gave me a dirty look and said nothing more.
I am so thankful my grandfather had the courage to abandon China and send his wife and my 13 year old dad and his little siblings on a ship to Taiwan, and then later join them. They left all their possessions behind and just had the clothes on their back. Because of their bravery, I am freer.
One of the, if not top, top aims of any communist revolution. Thanos explained it in the avengers (basic example). Erase everything so there is nothing that you forgot. Hand in hand with "make the individual impossible" along with eradicating competition in any normal state.
The remnants of that great culture survive today in the independent country of Taiwan. May they one day see the end of the CCP, and a revival of all that once made mainland China a cradle of human civilization.
Same thing in Cuba. The people who were born and raised under Castro's regime are so trash and pathetic. No fault of their own. Same thing liberals have done to black Americans
I bet in China literally nobody knows the true story and the few who still remember probably they keep silence in order to not being killed. China, a true free country.
Except that they won’t. They’ll blindly follow the Woke Cult right into authoritarianism and misery and carry on believing they’re the Good Guys. And anybody trying to show what happens if you do that will be smeared and outcast.
@@intrigued16 well it's no coincidence that covid and lockdowns struck right as protests reached a historical level not seen in China since Tiananmen square. The food shortages also began before covid hit. The lockdowns give a different excuse to the people as to why food is not being delivered in adequate quantities, giving the illusion of control.
The left sure is trying to bring about another socialist paradise that only the elites really want. They don't know they're useful idiots. I'll keep my liberties and the fruits of my own labor.
my mom worked with a guy who grew up during the famine and the stories he told her left her in tears in the middle of work. he and his family resorted at times to eating straw, insects, and dirt, and his parents often went days with no food at all just so the kids could have whatever meagre scraps they could find. there was this one specific food (i can't remember which) that was often all they had to eat for months on end that he couldn't even stand the sight or smell of as an adult bc he was so traumatized. it was horrendous to even hear about, so i can't even begin to imagine what these people suffered.
God rest his soul. Mao Tse Tung was a humanitarian whom saved millions of lives with his Great Leap Forward policy which had given China agricultural independence and feeds 20% of humanity today, he also help freed China from the traitorous PRC Government, if it wasn't for Mao, China would be a mere puppet of USA today...just like Japan and South Korea which are no longer real countries since they forfeited all sovereignty.
wow. this woman is what a true journalist is. i wish this could reach more people. thank you for this ill always regret not asking my grandpa for the full story of his experience in the USSR, WW2, german POW camp, and the gulag.
This woman is a reader. She did not investigate or write any of this. At 14:40 she mispronounces "proliferated". Only a reader would make that mistake. Edit; I just realized you were talking about the investigator featured in the film. She is not the person narrating. You are correct about the investigator. My apologies.
So true. As far as I know, it was on the Chinese history textbook BUT the topic has never been taught and never tested in any single major history examination, guess that the chinese gov wants to eradicate this piece of history among future generations
US & UK said there is a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. In fact US & UK lied again and again about everything which is against their interest. We don't need to believe in China, but neither do we need to trust the words of US and its lapdog.
American, mid-30s. I’ve never heard of this. It truly astounds me what we were and weren’t taught about history. My son once asked if the Hunger Games could actually happen. I said it probably already did. Well, minus the high-tech arena, here it is. Just horrific.
You really have never heard of this? And you're in your 30's? That's just sad & pathetic. That's a failure on your part just as much as the educational system.
There are several reasons why most schools won’t go into detail on the Great Leap Forward and what happened in Russia. There are an uncomfortable number of academics that either sympathize with Moa and Stalin, don’t believe these things actually happened or believe the West is responsible, or are afraid it will scare students away from socialism and that it just hasn’t been done right.
It's important to note this wasn't socialism as we know it today. If you want to see what properly employed socialism is, look at Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, etc. What this was, was authoritarian insanity and utter ignorance of the reality they lived in and what was actually possible with the technology and culture of the time.
I’ve always called it the Great LIE forward. The saddest part is just how little he thought of the PEOPLE in his supposed Peoples movement. The comment made by the writer sticks with me “A country that cannot face its past has no future.”
I lived in China for several years. I eventually got to learn the stories of my friends' relatives during this time. A lot of them referred to it as "the Great Leap Backward".
I CANNOT believe after the horrors of Stalin, Mao and the Kim family that some people still advocate for Communism. It's literally the deadliest ideology in history.
The irony is that the gen Z westerners want Maoism again and are even fine with the government taking their assets under no due process. Turns out that "history" can easily be rewritten by future tankies.
Mao only mistake was treatment of human conditions as if they are machines.. hmmm that is how modern uncontrolle capitalism economic model treatment our human species today... Yet with artificial intelligence technologies and investment in energy innovation our communism philosophy will be great again .. hmmm
already happened again...It even affected the marines at the US consulate in Shanghai. They had no fresh food to eat and had to evacuate immediately. This is the first time Americans have experienced totalitarian style famine
Met a guy who was a boy at the time of the famine, used to eat the plaster from the walls so he hunger pains wouldn’t keep him awake at night. The local village put guards on the small cemetery so people wouldn’t dig up the dead to eat them. First case of cannibalism he was aware of when a person from a neighboring village collapsed and died as he walked through the village - some people took his body that night and used it as food.
yeah both sides of my family suffered from this, dads side went to hong kong, mums side had to renounce all their assets and lay low to avoid prosecution. Basically lost all their land, business & wealth. Mums side managed to stow away some minor wealth comprising antiques, precious metals, paintings, all now remain in china. Some of the arts and antiques were later donated to museums in china. The great leap forward was a brutally simple extermination of the upper classes and class divide but also had far reaching consequences with erasure of chinese culture, literature, intellect, innovation & human development.
My fiancé’s parents lived through that time, and she told me that they were still shaken up by what they’ve seen and experienced during the “Great Famine” until the day they died!
My father in law was a teenager that time, he was so close to die of starvation. He told us he saw someone came from opposite direction and collapsed in front of him and died. Even today he visit us, when we do shopping, he always insists to buy a new bag of rice even though we still have more than half of bag rice at home.
@@davidz7858 You can't really blame him for acting like this. He's probably suffering from PTSD. He went through a traumatic experience at such a young age, so that memory will definitely stick with him until he leaves this world!
Xun was one of my lecturers at the Uni of Essex. I always remember how her eyes used to light up when someone engaged in the topic. She really gave off the impression of being a tremendously driven and competent scholar in this field. (She's also a notoriously strict marker, which goes to show how far her commitment to good academic practice goes - it often felt like my undergrad papers were being graded against an MA standard :P)
That term "indescribable madness" is the best description of this period. Before 2020 I could have never understood how this could happen, but I saw a small glimpse and its terrifying to think this is where you can end up because of a small group of megalomaniacs
Yes .. it can happen anywhere .. with the dominant narrative influencing my views I thought the Eastern and the less develope nation of the world commit this act until I witness Trump
This is just hooman nature. All the effort those poor bumpkins put into pleasing their masters they could’ve overthrown them a thousand times over. Think about how this is being replayed in a thousand different ways in the modern world. I’ve experienced the same quotas and targets and blind servitude in so many corporations where manager cadres are incentivized to keep their workers in line through all kinds of psychosocial manipulations. As long as humans live hand to mouth some arrogant sociopath with a supercilious haircut will always be able to gain the upper hand.
@@magicnier211 Hmm, president who’s orange tinged, polarizing and had the best economy in years vs a leader who took his country further into poverty and caused the death of more than 50 million people. Tough choice.
I cried towards the end, I cried for all those people and the horrors they endured the scale of which is difficult even to imagine. I cried knowing our species can be so incredibly cruel. I cried knowing the victims were never even officially recognized or given a proper memorial.
Never mind the dozens of millions who died directly before this point as well, in brutal events such as the Taipeng rebellion. It is sad to consider the unfortunately exceptional brutality of China’s history in the last two hundred years alone. It’s a concept beyond western conception.
@@blazejames47 Beyond Western conception? The 100 MILLION of my Native American ancestry SLAUGHTERED by WESTERN countries, the TENS OF MILLIONS of my African ancestry, SLAUGHTERED, RAPED, ENSLAVED by Western countries, the continuous slaughtering of TENS OF MILLIONS from Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, by WESTERN countries, I'm certain the West speaks a higher volume of this concept of violence over the last 500 years than ANY other region in the world as the WEST has literally committed global atrocities across the globe the last 500 years against NON-WHITE populations including against China during the Opium wars.
Yep. We have to know all the dirty details so we can avoid it in the future. Learn about and from it and you will know signs when things start going bad.
most of my family grew up in this era. they told me I was lucky not to grow up in the "starving time" and had to steal or eat bark, but mao was still a good leader. this family of mine contradicts itself on so many levels considering my deceased grandfather was a principal and one of his sons in laws was a red guard in a system designed to reward beating up his colleagues. it was a bizarre time for me to try to process how china screwed them so badly in the head
Oh yeah, the contradictions. Slightly reminds me of my mother who lived during soviet times in Eastern Europe. She would sometimes say, how much better certain things were , that with such little cash you could buy so much, but then she says you had to wait in long lines to buy stuff, and you could only get certain stuff like let's say a well made, with connections to certain people.
@@reecemorton4786 Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were at least 1828 famines in China. Famines occur almost every year in at least one province, but the severity varies widely.
there a saying in china：内斗内行 外斗外行 （experts in fighting among themselves, amateurs in fighting against outsiders）. Chinese killed more of their own than any other invaders or enemies, for a reason.
It can indeed happen any time and everywhere. The the only precondition is we give too much power to one person, above all the ultimate power to unilaterally decide what is right and what is wrong. It always ended in a disaster.
Mao's rise, the forming of the Communist Party, the great leap forward, and the culture revolution can be made into a long documentary series. This is an excellent documentary and one very accurate one. All of it reminds me what our parents and grandma told us, and news we read. I am very impressed with the filmed footages at the time. Of course we don't get to see the darkest human suffering and deaths. I gather from the clothing this documentary was made around 5 to 10 years ago. Definitely before the shut down of free speech in Hong Kong.,
The wrong side won the civil war in 1949; all of this could have easily been avoided instead of replicating Stalin's "successes" in the Soviet Union. Even the Great Helmsman epithet is copied from Stalin. No Korean War either.
V Sohn ~ Yeah, if you haven’t already seen it before, Then please check out the Brilliant video footage called = “THE INFANTILE LEFTIST MIND” By Bode Lang it shows clearly the mind set of these types of Marxist people. Open Borders, Free Health Care for everyone & Defund the Police Service. So that you would have to be insane to believe it or a child. Kill communism, Before it Kills you & your Family.
Very sad indeed. But the documentary reads as a example of dictatorial rule. But regarding ur communism, your sentiment Is a bit undercut by the fact China is about to be the leading superpower of this century.
@Ferrell Gray people have said that since the 50s.... and now they are about to be the global super power. So.. good luck with your prediction being right.
I was married to a Chinese born and bred woman for 10 years until 2020. She struggled to come to terms with the amount of people who died in the famine, and was in denial about the Tiananmen Square massacre, both of which are taboo subjects in her native country. The CCP closely regulates what is taught in schools and neither of those topics are permitted along with several other topics which paint the CCP in a bad light, it won't be long until no one from those times will still be alive to tell what really happened and then it will be completely forgotten about.
In fact, there was a famine in only about five provinces in China at that time. Unfortunately, my family was in one of them, which resulted in my grandfather becoming an orphan. But the numbers in this video and in the comment area are still exaggerated, because I asked many people outside these provinces that they did not die from famine there. Let me finally mention that Chairman Mao was retired at the time and was not in power.
My grandfather lived through that era. He used to tell us stories about that time, in the disappointment with the government, how his family had little to eat and had to eat dead fishes he can found in the village river just so that the family could survive. On top of that, he needed to worry about getting falsely accused by the red guard, even though he was just a minor account for the village official but not a party member. Although he still supports the government, he condemns the great leap forward movement, the red guard, especially the so-called "Gang of Four."
I will never understand people like your granddad. How in the frick do they still support the ccp after living through this n seeing all the lies 1st hand. Baffling
It's mind-blowing to me to see how many young people actually think communism or socialism is a good idea. They think that it is some paradise idea and actively fight to be able to vote for it. It makes me sad
@@squizzyicetea You are so one-sided. Look at how strong China is now. How fast China develop. You only look at the mistake we made so you negate the communism.
It’s really heartbreaking that the people of China especially the younger generations are completely left in the dark about this, while mao is everywhere even on their currency.
Benjamin Franklin didn’t force 60 million people into starvation dude, sure the west has its problems but a history of murderous communism isn’t one of them.
This is happening in west , it's about education of history. That's y ccp killed teachers. Learning from their mistakes they have infiltrated west education system while the generals build the communes(15 min citys) we will have nothing and be happy they say smh while promoting ccp as a great standard for the new world order. The mass migration in process
@@bluegregory6239 I do agree that we should study this event and learn from the mistakes. I think there are many takeaways from the failures of communist China and Russia. I would not want to be hasty though and completely rule out all aspects of socialism or communism due to these failures. It would be just as folly to condemn all aspects of capitalism due to the failure of the Hitler's Germany or the multitude of capitalist third world countries. I hope we can find the perfect balance one day but studying the mistakes of our ancestors
@@sheilafontaine9021 Depends on who writes the history? Have you been to China? I have many times. What about the Japanese before and during the 2ndWW, Nanjing, Unit 731, the British Opium war, and the taking of Hong Kong. All the foreign countries (UK, USA, Germany, etc) carved up a bit of China for their own interest. Many of the older generations still think that Mao did many good things (but not all)! The younger generation is more and more western in its views and outlook.
Talk about selective news media, I just tried to view a Chinese report on Xinjiang province and the page is blocked! Oh, I live in the UK. Just because someone says it's true does not make it factually correct, you are being told the full and truthful version. I know many people who lived through this period. They have always been honest (good and bad) about this time.
I lived in a food insecure family as a child, and it greatly affected me (and still does). To learn of this, and witness the testimony and videos of these people and their plight hurts my soul. Whether I agree or not with whatever ideology is irrelevant- human suffering is human suffering. May those affected find better times, and may those no longer with us find peace.
@@AR15andGOD sure if you're talking about the leadership. It's definitely relevant yes. But if you're considering the suffering of the people, it is not. They were lied to and misled. All with the intentions of sacrificing their present for a better future for their children.
I had a coworker who was a PhD in chemistry who had to leave because intellectuals were being murdered in China . He had 2 children and his wife elected to stay in China .
fun fact: Mao Zedong had green teeth because every morning he used to wash his teeth with tea and then chew tea leaves. His personal doctor was worried he might get dental issues but Mao told him "Tigers never brush their teeth" 🤦🏻♂️
They're the ones who want to be on the elite side of socialism or just 'useful idiots'. There is only super-wealthy and dirt poor in that system. I'll stick to capitalism and our multi-strata class system. I'll stick to reaping the fruits of my own labor!
@@Hahaha41241 been asleep for a few years, eh? Lol it isn't just journalists either. It's called "greener grass syndrome" in my circle. People THINK they're getting the shaft, when in reality they're surprisingly well taken care of. Ignorance is bliss, sure. But it also makes the sheep arrogant.
I think this is where China's exotic cuisine culture came from. Being forced to eat anything from insects to dogs, cats, lizards, etc. for years, convinced many that anything is good to eat.
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
I was also in the Pol Pot EuroChinese communist facilities for 6 months and my parents and Me siblings suffered exchanging our gold for food and lastly, we returned to Vietnam by the Soviet Vietnamese small Viking ship. Thank God, we survived to be in The USA.
This is so eye opening. I’ve never heard this story. Some of us get so caught up in such trivial matters we’re ignorant of the realities of this world.
REALLY? How bout Stalin’s purge in the 1930’s when 20+ million died or were murdered? He took land from farmers and divided it up to the ppl. I believe each family got 10 acres. NONE OF THEM KNEW HOW TO GROW FOOD! The NKVD would come around at harvest time and take EVERYTHING leaving nothing for the workers. Communism is a CROCK OF SIT!
I love the like "women were liberated from their maternal duties to work in the fields" nothing more liborating than toiling away for days on end for no pay.
My parents lived in the city during those years, they still vividly remember the bizarre things they were told to do, beat drums and things so sparrows have no places to land or perch, give up any old metal objects so they can be melted to "make steel"; they still refer to that period "the three year of natural disaster"; my father side has large family with a single mother, with food ration coupons, grandmother would go hungry so the kids can use the coupons. My college friend's father was in very rural village in Fujian, things were much much worse for them during those years.
Let's not forget Communist Vietnam also supported that party during the Second Indochina War, and maybe even the USA too since it was there, but another irony is that you imps and your narratives love Communist Vietnam now.
@@tritium1998 One. of the greatest ironies in modern history is that China and the US both supported Cambodia. The only historical parallel that springs to mind is the USA's inexplicable support of Pakistan, a major Chinese client and in some ways the facilitator of North Korea's nuclear program. Shameful in both cases.
@@bluegregory6239 Its not inexplicable. it just seemingly makes no sense if you dont know any historical context. in the cold war, halting the spread of communism was the absolute highest focus and Pakistan was on board. They signed up to SEATO in the 1950s and this later came in handy when the russians invaded afghanistan. support was funnelled to the Mujahideen (not the taliban) via Pakistan and this eventually lead to the russias exit and contributed to the soviet unions collapse. Unfortunately, as we know nations may agree on some things they have their own addenda's and pakistan being an islamic moron state also supported their home grown taliban and encouraged them to spread into afghanistan to spread their brand of islam through the region which they did after the russians left, destroying the now exhausted local fighters and conquering afghanistan, which of course they still control to this day, probably permanently damaging the area. Same goes in many cases. The USA supported certain elements inside cambodia because they were against the communists, but they didnt win. International support and diplomacy is a very tricky thing. A lot of the time it doesnt work out the way you would like, times and governments change, and another element is while you may not agree with a certain governments attitudes or policies, if you walk away from them it is likely they will simply turn to your enemies for support instead, leaving that region completely under their influence and that might be even worse as your enemies will get a say in what happens. So you see, there is a lot to think about.
Terrifying, how one psychopath can mobolize the mobs ( mostly proud youths), and even turn them to hate their own parents, teachers, and literally devour one another. The price of killing sparrows
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
Just cannot help getting teary and emotional again and again watching this ... Heavens, why so much suffering for Chinese people, my country, my race?! I'm so sad because I know it's all true - my own grandmother on my mother's side died of starvation then! following her husband who as the head of the village in the government hang himself when communist's "Chinese liberation army" came.
Hello, I'm from Sichuan. It was really a great tragedy to think about that year. All this can only be blamed on the incompetence of the national government, which made them win.，Alas, it's all fate.
This is the best documentary on the great leap forward showing what it really was. This was about as bad if not worst then the Holocaust. This is the worst display of human evil I've ever seen.
I agree great documentary and in terms of pure death toll it's much worse But just because it's worse doesn't mean it removes the significance surrounding the evil of either event Both are horrible horrible events as a result of terrible government policies and I only hope that they are never forgotten or defended
@@rejvaik00 I would agree, but often the great leap forward is forgotten by the west and often hidden by the Chinese Gov, while the Holocaust is justly remembered with reverence.
I understand what you mean by that, but you just can't make this comparison, because both of these things ar bad but it's really two very uncomparable situations you are talking about. If you would want to make such arguments, you should talk about china's and SSRS communism measures, it is more appropriate and comparable.
Unfortunately you are right, fortunately I am not one of those Americans. I am an American that is grateful for the country I live in, believe me I am not the most well-off. Doing okay but far from great. But still grateful. It's sad that people in my country are taking small things and things that don't even actually happen and call themselves oppressed. Because it's taking the focus off real issues and fact that they overemphasize the issues they're dealing with, people start to not care. It's annoying and obnoxious. Especially when they cry about being oppressed for whatever reason but at the same time want to oppress other people and to force them to change how they are. It is a small percentage of our society. But they are getting a lot of attention and with social media and the internet have a very loud mic. Which is allowing them to grow and allowing them to influence.
@@intrigued16 exactly. I think there are more of us than we realize,but by our nature we are not the loud mouths of society and by their nature, they are.
Thank you so much for this video. For making easy education and brining light to such a topic. Love the people who interviewed and the interviewers. Thank you for this video c:
This was absolutely heartbreaking and devastating... Mao Zedong showed no remorse for a loss of life.!!!! He had none.. he wouldn't even accept any kind of responsibility for not having nearly enough people planning crops during that greatly forward plan to industrialize China, what you love to somewhere around 38 to 40 plus million people starving to death...
China was a country developed under very low foundation not like western rich country, Pre modern China facing Opium war, 8 western nation war, British invasion, Japan invasion ,Civil war, Famine, China was the most populated country in the world, China was reformed by Deng Xiaoping it take about 30yrs to archive today status. China Development wasn't a charity but the struggle of our generation.
@@danielloh2166 what on earth do you mean for us to understand ? Can't you just say " yes Mao was out of his depth and couldn't care less about the Chinese people"?
Hearing a lot of similar rhetoric in "civilized" western countries these days. Something something those who do not learn their history something something.
About 25% of the world's total prison population is in the United States, which holds about 2.19 million prisoners as of 2019 (1.38 million in federal and state prisons, 745,200 in jails). ... Prison Population by State 2023.
I remember being stunned in college that a guy in my dorm was a committed communist. I think we've tried it enough times in different societies with different levels of development to know it doesn't work
Just posted a comment on western educations in the last few decades coddling communist. Glad to see I am not the only one who sees this. The irony is that western communists are very socially sensitive... Yet ignore alllllll the harm communism must enact before it even comes underway.
Technically, all political systems are f Ed up. And pure anarchy is impossible. We’re human, we’re morons. Whatever we touch seems to go sideways eventually. Communism is never done “right “ and never will. But the philosophy sounds good.
No offense to you but, it is very ignorant to believe anybody supports this. They are probably supporting communism as defined by Marx who invented it, rather than the dictatorships who used the word to gain power. In the U.S., it will be the same thing but, they will call it capitalism because that is the term more likely to lull the masses here. In reality, they are all some version of fascism, but nobody calls themselves that for obvious reasons. That is what has never worked and just keeps happening. Mostly because people fail to recognize it for what it is each time it starts happening again.
Yes, and the modern CCP is working on ingenious new was of elevating the body count. The only difference now is that the whole world gets to suffer the fall out from the demented plans of the CCP. The ignorance of the Chinese people about the history of their government may kill us all one day. Can't wait for CCP pandemic 2.0!
Chinese culture has always taught it to be loyal to the government allowing the people to be repressed by multiple dynasties and leaders for millenia. It wasn't just Mao.
I'd say that the disgust could have has less to do with communism it's self than with Authoritarianism. No had freedom, no one but Mao had a say, no one could question the state, no one could push back against the mistakes of the leadership or correct them. China's communism was in name only.
@@erobbwhy is it that as soon as one commemts on something some know it all chips in with a totally un supported remark like this, you should at least provide some evidence.....so please write in.......BUT NOT TO ME.
@@timrutter5025 sorry if I’m annoying you but I have a few more questions. How old are you and did you go to school in the US? What did you learn for history lessons?
You know you're in a worrysome time when you're A: surprised anyone would make this video at this time and B: even more surprised UA-cam hasn't taken this down yet.
Let me get this straight. One man had absolute power over a country of 650 million people. He made dissidence a crime punishable by death. He took away all individual rights, including private property, so that "the individual was no more than a cog in a great machine". What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
You should not take a history event out of the context. 1) China was poor at that time under strong influence from the west. 2) savour union was the only successful model available at that time. So is it a bad attend? Absolutely. Was Mao did it just for personal power? I highly doubt it.
@@ankailiu3365 like the high ups of the Party, he sure didn’t suffer the consequences of his policies, or did what he told the people to: I didn’t see him rushing to live in a commune.
One word of advice: if your authorities ever try to take away property rights, do everything you can to prevent it. Even if you are almost assured to die doing so. Because if they do, the result will be far worse than death.
Open fire. The 2nd amendment was recognized by our illustrious founders for a reason. DON'T BE AFRAID OF IT! BE GRATEFUL FOR IT! It is YOUR right, not bestowed by government, bestowed by GOD! Every American's birthright, and should be the birthright of EVERY citizen of the world.
"Between 1950 and 1980, China experienced the most rapid sustained increase in life expectancy of any population in documented global history." - Babiarz KS, Eggleston K, Miller G, Zhang Q. An exploration of China's mortality decline under Mao: A provincial analysis, 1950-80. Popul Stud (Camb). 2015;69(1):39-56. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2014.972432. Epub 2014 Dec 13. PMID: 25495509; PMCID: PMC4331212.
@@chipe420 The Great leap forward is a relatively short period of time compared to 50-80. So is it necessary for tens of millions of people to be persecuted unnessarily/wrongly worse than pigs in order that "under some circumstances, general education of the population may amplify the effectiveness of public health interventions."?
@Bob Shingles not even close. Like wtf even is that comparison???? You really compare an entire country being starved to death to a disease outbreak. Literally shut up
This needs to be discussed & is a subject to educate others on evil people in history. When I mention “the great leap foward” in China people don’t know what I’m talking about 😔
@@hennagaijin7856 The worst part of it is that some political leaders have separated politics from science even to this day. The great leap forward could be considered as a failed social experiment with significant human cost... but it is always more important to teach children scientific thinking rather than teach them to waste time on blaming a dead communist leader.
@@nepenthy9804 I think she meant that most people don't know about the horrors that happened in the Great Leap Forward, my Chinese friend didn't even know that Mao was essentially history's biggest mass murderer, he thought Mao was someone who wanted peace and was a saint
@@danix4883 Few people in China know the fact of the leap forward, even those born in 40s50s,Mao is always shaped as a saint in Chinese history，the only reason why the authorities cover the truth is that for CCP it matters if they can still last their legitimacy or not，but the the truth is nothing more than dust. And she is lying，in China we call her little pink who earns from gov to polish the dictatorship into paradise
Communism and socialism is all about the collective. Individuality does not and never will exist. However, there's always the handful of individuals at the top of the heap who will always benefit greatly and who cannot be touched or criticized without incurring the wrath of the party. There's never any deviation from this program.
world will always be about who on top.we will never be equal..existence of life is haves & have nots..how can India have equality with breeding apparatus of the Masse..you do know major Cull will be the future.10 million from over populated selected & vapourize. 6 kids per cant continue..
The hunger continued in rural area til 1980s ( Not as severe as those 3 years but impressive for those who lived through). It was just covered by the bigger case of cultural revolution. Farmers suffer the most. Same story repeats...
I've always been horrified when I've read something about the Great Leap Forward. However, seeing actual video footage makes it even worse to comprehend.
@@conanthegreat4418 This is happening in west , it's about education of history. That's y ccp killed teachers. Learning from their mistakes they have infiltrated west education system while the generals build the communes(15 min citys) we will have nothing and be happy they say smh while promoting ccp as a great standard for the new world order.
Communist is leftist, and I don’t disagree with what the communism ideology says, and I may not disagree with Maoist ideology, but I definitely disagree with what he did. I honestly hated him.
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
@@rally_chronicles Oh? I guess you don't have relatives that were persecuted in the Cultural Revolution then. And don't tell me that it wasn't Mao's fault; do you really think the Gang of Four would have gained so much power if it wasn't for him?
Heartbreaking but critical to understand. Thanks to everyone who produced this doc!. Powerful documentary. Don't forget or excuse the mistakes of history..
Yes very heartbreaking, im having a heavy heart rn as im thinking my own love/loved ones….. who suffered under Mao…. There is that part empty part of me that just feels like I missed an opportunity to get the elderly primary sources of my own family’s ancestry….cause ALL of my great grandparents already met their destiny…….
Put a guy on a raised stage and give him a microphone and people think he's God . 🙄May I ask what is wrong with people? Anyway humanity always pays a grave price for this kind of misunderstanding for not seeing reality.
my grandgrandparents also experienced hunger (not in China, but in other country, i won't tell you). when hunger has started they were wealthy but they were forced to give their food and cows and everything to government as everyone in the village. most of villagers had died and my grandgrandparents were eating even tree bark. their children and parents died, but they survived. it's sad
This is the most terrifying and quite frankly most depressing event in history I’ve ever learnt about by far, how so few people in power could spell death for the millions feeding them nothing but lies as they starved their own people to death. Rest in peace to those who died in the struggle to survive we will never forget
@@cindyhuang7021 I’m English we love Chinese students here because our universities would be half empty without them and many of our local businesses would’ve shut down a long time ago especially where I live
@@vintce6019 says the one who is basicly saying that all asians dont have rights and that even tho we asians are actully white it is still saying that we dont have equal rights and are basicly better off being a black minority
Time to learn about North Korea ! If there ever was an example of the disparities between a Democratic society and an Autocratic society one need only look at at North & South Korea. Democracies are not perfect; only representative of any societies attempt to better themselves and their families.
It’s worth mentioning that the ideas used for collectivization of agriculture were based on Trofim Lysenko’s “Lysenkoism”, which posited that plants would grow better in a communistic type set up, all together in bunches, to support eachother. All the traditional farmers had already been killed, and lysenokism lead to massive starvation there as well.
It never ceases to amaze me how many times collectivized farming got proven to be a bad idea yet every communist country made it one of their first priorities. Most of the time it ended in famine yet they just kept trying it again and again with each leader thinking "well I know better than they did" and seeing the same results. They were often made worse since often the new collectiivized farms were run by people without much knowledge of farming or the locals so they often made terrible mistakes.
@@arthas640 it's actual madness to think people with zero agricultural experience thought they were qualified to tell others how to farm. That's a core issue, it's just insane. No system can function if it's led by literal morons.
Both my parents lived through this era, and both have consistently summed it up in one simple sentence: "everyone who survived knew at least one person who died."
"One person who died directly as a result of the famine". Everybody knows someone who has passed
that gave me chills
@@jumpingsloth3963 Context clues were enough to explain what he meant as he mentioned the era brought up in the video.
So what.
So what.
Remember in a communist society, everyone is equal but some are more equal than others
True. Oink. Oink!
I don't admit the current China is a communist country😓
Sounds like the same promises in capitalism.
@@Dirge4july not at all
Animal Farm. George Orwell. Awesome book!
My father grew up in that era, he said a lot of people died, they didn’t have anything to eat and sometimes they ate wild grass, and got food poisoning and there’s no treatment, everyone was so malnourished, and he would immediately tell me that I can’t mention this to anyone in school.
Wow he was protecting you but letting you know the truth. Good for him 🙏
Dikotter writes peasants ate mud when all the grass ran out.
@@duncancurtis1758 Geography matters, we are in the northeast region, where the Japanese originally occupied, then Russia invaded, they all wanted that piece of land, the soil is extremely fertile, we were famous for coal mines, there are mountains and rivers the people were living off. Even when I was little, I often went fishing…foraging with my friends for fun, but even we had all of those resources, so many people died. People up north and down south were pretty self-sufficient before the famine so not as much suffering. But people in the mid-China region where these documentaries talk about had the worst case.
@mingxuan fan are you manchurian ?
@@hennagaijin7856 "only of the good side of communism" aint seen one yet.
My grandparents grew up in this era. Grandmother is incredibly short because of it and some of her younger brothers have stomach issues for life because of it. Its as if the starvation never ended for them. Most of my family hordes food now in chest freezers and dry storage because it is now a habit developed out of starvation trauma. Let the younger generation learn from the old...
How many kids in the family? Probably a bunch.
Don't have so many kids, won't have a problem.
@@CantHandleThisCanYa very ignorant of you to say. Mao was encouraging for large families at that time as this was after the 2nd World War and a continent spanning civil war. He promised that we would all have enough to eat and enough land to farm unlike under the Qing or the Nationalists. Are you going to blame my great grandparents for not having enough foresight to see bad times ahead under a leader who promised us that we would all at least not starve under his rule?
@@CantHandleThisCanYalol shut up. Easy to say now.
It's actually the exact opposite of what you're saying. In an agral society, having many kids is actually of huge economic benefit and importance. Not having offsprings was a death sentence.
Chinese people are under bondage through the curse of idolatry
The world needs to hear this over and over again!
We’re about to relive it
No need. We already know it. The revolution of society often comes with sweat and blood.
why? we never learn. We tend to repet.... its inevitable
@@fusemke Revolution of society? It was a genocide not a revolution
@@maciejrogozinski8277 👍👍 Although believe it or not - these top tier political etc leaders have Type A Personalities to say the very least, this is actually built into our DNA. To survive we will need to overcome the DNA thing
I was born in China, 2000, and from my experience growing up and hearing all kinds of stories about the great famine, I got a sense that everybody around me knew what happened, but nobody talked about it in public. Just like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, everybody knew it (and are quite open to private discussions, you will be AMAZED how much they actually know about the event), it was just that nobody talked about it openly.
Interesting. I always wonder if they talked in private with people they trusted.
@Chang Liu how do u know who to trust with these matters?
@@holdingsteadfast very true. But I would think you could discuss it with other friends that complain or grumble about the regime. I know it’s sensitive. I taught a class to a Chinese kid and talked about my life in Taiwan for 15 years. He couldn’t handle facts like they had their own passports, military, currency, democracy, and that he would need a visa if he wanted to visit. He was almost an adult. Dad refused to pay for the lesson. Great country and people being made stupid by terrible leaders.
@@MarkMark-xz4ff puts into perspective how much the govt controls their people. In the USSR its been said that 1 in 3 people were informants. I imagine it would be much worse in China as its both people and technology looking at you. If stories were told it would be in hushed tones, very private, and with only those you trust the most.
@@holdingsteadfast Yes. And China was modeled on this. You are right. Mao loved Stalin. Even Stalin told him to cool it and not go so aggressive with reforms but he didn’t listen.
I attended a gathering at a friend of my GF's house a couple of years ago. The host, an American white guy around age 70 at one point was talking about how marvelous modern day China was and how wonderful the Communist revolution was. How the people of China were so lucky to have been brought into the modern world by Mao. I replied, sure, if you can overlook the 50 million who died in the famines. He gave me a dirty look and said nothing more.
😂😂
50 million is absurd,why you exaggerate the figure ?
@@marshal6540 because that is the exact number that died
@@humanchannel7825 how do you konw genius?
@@marshal6540 how do you know six million Jews died in the holocaust ?
I am so thankful my grandfather had the courage to abandon China and send his wife and my 13 year old dad and his little siblings on a ship to Taiwan, and then later join them. They left all their possessions behind and just had the clothes on their back. Because of their bravery, I am freer.
Give China's gold back, scumbag.
Good Grandpa!
@@jeffro4kag206 Indeed.
You are not free. You are a defect. 😂
Good for you! It's insane how the communist Chinese still revere this absolutely deplorable man.
The loss wasn't only in lives. It was also in Chinese culture. A great and ancient culture that has been mostly blown up or burned down.
most communist countries end up with low supply of essential goods due to centralized command economies... it's not just a chinese thing.
One of the, if not top, top aims of any communist revolution. Thanos explained it in the avengers (basic example). Erase everything so there is nothing that you forgot. Hand in hand with "make the individual impossible" along with eradicating competition in any normal state.
The remnants of that great culture survive today in the independent country of Taiwan. May they one day see the end of the CCP, and a revival of all that once made mainland China a cradle of human civilization.
Same thing in Cuba. The people who were born and raised under Castro's regime are so trash and pathetic. No fault of their own. Same thing liberals have done to black Americans
@@chriswhited americans must have brainrot the way they can only talk about history and politics in terms of marvel and hamburger
The world and younger generations should never forget their older generations who went through such horrific and horrendous days.
I bet in China literally nobody knows the true story and the few who still remember probably they keep silence in order to not being killed.
China, a true free country.
Except that they won’t.
They’ll blindly follow the Woke Cult right into authoritarianism and misery and carry on believing they’re the Good Guys.
And anybody trying to show what happens if you do that will be smeared and outcast.
they should remember that older generations did these things to one another
@@MrTaxiRob truth
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'A country that can't face up to its history has no future'. Well said. We are seeing it repeating itself, again, in 2022.
In what why are we seeing it? I'm not being condescending. I'm just wondering where your point of view is coming from.
@@intrigued16 well it's no coincidence that covid and lockdowns struck right as protests reached a historical level not seen in China since Tiananmen square. The food shortages also began before covid hit. The lockdowns give a different excuse to the people as to why food is not being delivered in adequate quantities, giving the illusion of control.
@@intrigued16 the zero covid policy is a repeat of zero sparrow policy，right？
@@intrigued16 how about all the lies and coverups of mass deficiencies?
The left sure is trying to bring about another socialist paradise that only the elites really want. They don't know they're useful idiots. I'll keep my liberties and the fruits of my own labor.
my mom worked with a guy who grew up during the famine and the stories he told her left her in tears in the middle of work. he and his family resorted at times to eating straw, insects, and dirt, and his parents often went days with no food at all just so the kids could have whatever meagre scraps they could find. there was this one specific food (i can't remember which) that was often all they had to eat for months on end that he couldn't even stand the sight or smell of as an adult bc he was so traumatized. it was horrendous to even hear about, so i can't even begin to imagine what these people suffered.
It’s becoming popular again…..eat ze bugs says Herr Klaus Schwab.
No soup for you!
God rest his soul. Mao Tse Tung was a humanitarian whom saved millions of lives with his Great Leap Forward policy which had given China agricultural independence and feeds 20% of humanity today, he also help freed China from the traitorous PRC Government, if it wasn't for Mao, China would be a mere puppet of USA today...just like Japan and South Korea which are no longer real countries since they forfeited all sovereignty.
wow. this woman is what a true journalist is. i wish this could reach more people. thank you for this
ill always regret not asking my grandpa for the full story of his experience in the USSR, WW2, german POW camp, and the gulag.
This woman is a reader. She did not investigate or write any of this. At 14:40 she mispronounces "proliferated". Only a reader would make that mistake. Edit; I just realized you were talking about the investigator featured in the film. She is not the person narrating. You are correct about the investigator. My apologies.
Chinese became united during d times of genesis khan who united d wholes of china
@@alejogarciajr022 Yes, while he committed genocidal atrocities.
she is spreading FAKE news
@@erobb OK. Provide evidence. Without evidence I could just as justifiably say that you are spreading propaganda sympathetic to a foreign government.
Just shows how a relatively small handful of people can destroy the lives of millions.
A lesson for the US, which is toying with socialism/communism.
Yeah British empire, Manifest Destiny etc
...when everyone complies..
@@tonhettema1005 Humans are largely herd animals
complying makes one complicit
“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of the Great Leap Forward?”
“No.”
“It’s not a story the Chinese government would tell you.”
So true. As far as I know, it was on the Chinese history textbook BUT the topic has never been taught and never tested in any single major history examination, guess that the chinese gov wants to eradicate this piece of history among future generations
Do you media or history tell you about US led economy embargo against China during 1950-1972?
US & UK said there is a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. In fact US & UK lied again and again about everything which is against their interest. We don't need to believe in China, but neither do we need to trust the words of US and its lapdog.
3 replies are not shown. Guess the Chinese government didn't like your comment. and where spreading dis-information?
People visiting from the CCP can just talk to people from Taiwan. They'll tell them the truth.
American, mid-30s. I’ve never heard of this. It truly astounds me what we were and weren’t taught about history. My son once asked if the Hunger Games could actually happen. I said it probably already did. Well, minus the high-tech arena, here it is. Just horrific.
You really have never heard of this? And you're in your 30's? That's just sad & pathetic. That's a failure on your part just as much as the educational system.
There are several reasons why most schools won’t go into detail on the Great Leap Forward and what happened in Russia. There are an uncomfortable number of academics that either sympathize with Moa and Stalin, don’t believe these things actually happened or believe the West is responsible, or are afraid it will scare students away from socialism and that it just hasn’t been done right.
It's important to note this wasn't socialism as we know it today. If you want to see what properly employed socialism is, look at Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, etc.
What this was, was authoritarian insanity and utter ignorance of the reality they lived in and what was actually possible with the technology and culture of the time.
@@remigusker6024 Unequivocally false. Go spew your communist propaganda somewhere else.
Stalin did the same to Ukrainians and remote Russian provinces
I’ve always called it the Great LIE forward. The saddest part is just how little he thought of the PEOPLE in his supposed Peoples movement. The comment made by the writer sticks with me “A country that cannot face its past has no future.”
correct
I lived in China for several years. I eventually got to learn the stories of my friends' relatives during this time. A lot of them referred to it as "the Great Leap Backward".
Jim Jones' Peoples Temple didn't care much about "the people" either.
@@Gorboduc at some point you get some megalomaniac who believes their “method” will bring prosperity to all to the detriment of all.
I CANNOT believe after the horrors of Stalin, Mao and the Kim family that some people still advocate for Communism. It's literally the deadliest ideology in history.
Powerful documentary. Don't forget or excuse the mistakes of history.
Mass murder is not a mistake.
@@Celisar1 I think he means him coming to power was
The irony is that the gen Z westerners want Maoism again and are even fine with the government taking their assets under no due process.
Turns out that "history" can easily be rewritten by future tankies.
Mao only mistake was treatment of human conditions as if they are machines.. hmmm that is how modern uncontrolle capitalism economic model treatment our human species today...
Yet with artificial intelligence technologies and investment in energy innovation our communism philosophy will be great again .. hmmm
already happened again...It even affected the marines at the US consulate in Shanghai. They had no fresh food to eat and had to evacuate immediately. This is the first time Americans have experienced totalitarian style famine
Met a guy who was a boy at the time of the famine, used to eat the plaster from the walls so he hunger pains wouldn’t keep him awake at night. The local village put guards on the small cemetery so people wouldn’t dig up the dead to eat them. First case of cannibalism he was aware of when a person from a neighboring village collapsed and died as he walked through the village - some people took his body that night and used it as food.
JESUS!
yeah both sides of my family suffered from this, dads side went to hong kong, mums side had to renounce all their assets and lay low to avoid prosecution. Basically lost all their land, business & wealth. Mums side managed to stow away some minor wealth comprising antiques, precious metals, paintings, all now remain in china. Some of the arts and antiques were later donated to museums in china. The great leap forward was a brutally simple extermination of the upper classes and class divide but also had far reaching consequences with erasure of chinese culture, literature, intellect, innovation & human development.
My fiancé’s parents lived through that time, and she told me that they were still shaken up by what they’ve seen and experienced during the “Great Famine” until the day they died!
The elders that survived the famine ate many dead people to SURVIVE.
My father in law was a teenager that time, he was so close to die of starvation. He told us he saw someone came from opposite direction and collapsed in front of him and died. Even today he visit us, when we do shopping, he always insists to buy a new bag of rice even though we still have more than half of bag rice at home.
@@davidz7858 You can't really blame him for acting like this. He's probably suffering from PTSD. He went through a traumatic experience at such a young age, so that memory will definitely stick with him until he leaves this world!
Xun was one of my lecturers at the Uni of Essex. I always remember how her eyes used to light up when someone engaged in the topic. She really gave off the impression of being a tremendously driven and competent scholar in this field.
(She's also a notoriously strict marker, which goes to show how far her commitment to good academic practice goes - it often felt like my undergrad papers were being graded against an MA standard :P)
That term "indescribable madness" is the best description of this period. Before 2020 I could have never understood how this could happen, but I saw a small glimpse and its terrifying to think this is where you can end up because of a small group of megalomaniacs
Yes .. it can happen anywhere .. with the dominant narrative influencing my views I thought the Eastern and the less develope nation of the world commit this act until I witness Trump
This is just hooman nature. All the effort those poor bumpkins put into pleasing their masters they could’ve overthrown them a thousand times over. Think about how this is being replayed in a thousand different ways in the modern world. I’ve experienced the same quotas and targets and blind servitude in so many corporations where manager cadres are incentivized to keep their workers in line through all kinds of psychosocial manipulations. As long as humans live hand to mouth some arrogant sociopath with a supercilious haircut will always be able to gain the upper hand.
@@magicnier211 wtf are you talking about?
@@magicnier211 Hmm, president who’s orange tinged, polarizing and had the best economy in years vs a leader who took his country further into poverty and caused the death of more than 50 million people. Tough choice.
@Jay January How is that even remotely valid? Communast logic 🤡
I cried towards the end, I cried for all those people and the horrors they endured the scale of which is difficult even to imagine. I cried knowing our species can be so incredibly cruel. I cried knowing the victims were never even officially recognized or given a proper memorial.
They weren't even given a proper burial.
Never mind the dozens of millions who died directly before this point as well, in brutal events such as the Taipeng rebellion.
It is sad to consider the unfortunately exceptional brutality of China’s history in the last two hundred years alone. It’s a concept beyond western conception.
@@blazejames47 Beyond Western conception? The 100 MILLION of my Native American ancestry SLAUGHTERED by WESTERN countries, the TENS OF MILLIONS of my African ancestry, SLAUGHTERED, RAPED, ENSLAVED by Western countries, the continuous slaughtering of TENS OF MILLIONS from Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, by WESTERN countries, I'm certain the West speaks a higher volume of this concept of violence over the last 500 years than ANY other region in the world as the WEST has literally committed global atrocities across the globe the last 500 years against NON-WHITE populations including against China during the Opium wars.
Heartbreaking but critical to understand. Thanks to everyone who produced this doc!
Yep. We have to know all the dirty details so we can avoid it in the future. Learn about and from it and you will know signs when things start going bad.
Is this a bit comment? There’s another just like this from a different user
@@baptizednblood6813 I’m not a bit.
He was extremely wicked& anyone that followed his command.What a Damn crying shame.
His Greatest Admirer and Follower is Chairman Xi jin ping
I guess do it or die.
@@ruidixin3460 diabolical
most of my family grew up in this era. they told me I was lucky not to grow up in the "starving time" and had to steal or eat bark, but mao was still a good leader. this family of mine contradicts itself on so many levels considering my deceased grandfather was a principal and one of his sons in laws was a red guard in a system designed to reward beating up his colleagues. it was a bizarre time for me to try to process how china screwed them so badly in the head
Oh yeah, the contradictions. Slightly reminds me of my mother who lived during soviet times in Eastern Europe. She would sometimes say, how much better certain things were , that with such little cash you could buy so much, but then she says you had to wait in long lines to buy stuff, and you could only get certain stuff like let's say a well made, with connections to certain people.
compare India and Africa with China ，maybe you will understand why your family said “ Mao was still a good leader”
@@jianqiaocao2446 China is a 5,000 year old cultural powerhouse, not sub Saharan Africa. They should’ve never had any “starving times”
@@reecemorton4786 Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were at least 1828 famines in China. Famines occur almost every year in at least one province, but the severity varies widely.
@@jianqiaocao2446 how many times has 1/10th of the entire population starved?
There I was, feeling sorry for myself, surfing UA-cam.
Then I watched this documentary.
I got over it.
A lot of respect for Timeline putting this out today. People need to know the history and truth about tyranny, communism, & socialism.
But why are there people who still beleive in communism when all it achieves is starvation, tyrany and opression.
it’s not just communism or socialism it’s authoritarianism
@@rafangille Those go hand in hand
there a saying in china：内斗内行 外斗外行 （experts in fighting among themselves, amateurs in fighting against outsiders）. Chinese killed more of their own than any other invaders or enemies, for a reason.
This is surprisingly, shockingly accurate. Often documentaries embellish or misconstrue- this didn’t.
It's like the September 18th museum in Shenyang for the Mukden incident.
Some things are so damning they don't need exaggeration.
How do you know?
@@flounder2129 I’ve read and I recommend the works of Jung Chang. I have other sources if you’re interested.
@@kandastrike thank you, not necessary. This is the first I’ve delved into this time. Horrible
@素食吉祥净心净土 Yes, I am not denying that, but Mao’s crimes were real too.
I watched with tears in my eyes and horrified when realizing this terrible tragedy may happen again to humans under dictator’s oppression.
It can indeed happen any time and everywhere. The the only precondition is we give too much power to one person, above all the ultimate power to unilaterally decide what is right and what is wrong. It always ended in a disaster.
If u live in an almost entirely agrarian, third-world country with little to no literacy, then you should be worried.
The faster, the better as that regime must fall again. AT ANY COST
Just take a look at a nation like Venezuela or North Korea. It's either happening right under your nose or on the verge of complete national failure.
It is happening to Uighurs
Mao's rise, the forming of the Communist Party, the great leap forward, and the culture revolution can be made into a long documentary series. This is an excellent documentary and one very accurate one. All of it reminds me what our parents and grandma told us, and news we read. I am very impressed with the filmed footages at the time. Of course we don't get to see the darkest human suffering and deaths.
I gather from the clothing this documentary was made around 5 to 10 years ago. Definitely before the shut down of free speech in Hong Kong.,
The wrong side won the civil war in 1949; all of this could have easily been avoided instead of replicating Stalin's "successes" in the Soviet Union. Even the Great Helmsman epithet is copied from Stalin. No Korean War either.
There are several series in mao
V Sohn ~ Yeah,
if you haven’t already seen it before,
Then please check out the Brilliant video footage called =
“THE INFANTILE LEFTIST MIND”
By Bode Lang
it shows clearly the mind set of these types of Marxist people.
Open Borders, Free Health Care for everyone & Defund the Police Service.
So that you would have to be insane to believe it or a child.
Kill communism,
Before it Kills you & your Family.
Biden building back better
@@youtubehatestruthtellers8065
Let's go Brandon!!! 🤣
Be safe and be 😎
This documentary needs to be seen,heard and understood by anyone supporting communism ....
Very sad indeed. But the documentary reads as a example of dictatorial rule. But regarding ur communism, your sentiment Is a bit undercut by the fact China is about to be the leading superpower of this century.
@@SenorSoapberryBug - And the least free country too. The people will have enough of them soon enough when their next big war comes along.
@Ferrell Gray people have said that since the 50s.... and now they are about to be the global super power. So.. good luck with your prediction being right.
@@SenorSoapberryBug the whole world is going to collapse. Mark my words
@@pickledragonrebel says one rando online, and millions of dead so called prophets.
Imagine asking your child to eat your heart when you die. I wept. There are fates far worse than death, indeed.
I was married to a Chinese born and bred woman for 10 years until 2020. She struggled to come to terms with the amount of people who died in the famine, and was in denial about the Tiananmen Square massacre, both of which are taboo subjects in her native country. The CCP closely regulates what is taught in schools and neither of those topics are permitted along with several other topics which paint the CCP in a bad light, it won't be long until no one from those times will still be alive to tell what really happened and then it will be completely forgotten about.
In fact, there was a famine in only about five provinces in China at that time. Unfortunately, my family was in one of them, which resulted in my grandfather becoming an orphan. But the numbers in this video and in the comment area are still exaggerated, because I asked many people outside these provinces that they did not die from famine there. Let me finally mention that Chairman Mao was retired at the time and was not in power.
My grandfather lived through that era. He used to tell us stories about that time, in the disappointment with the government, how his family had little to eat and had to eat dead fishes he can found in the village river just so that the family could survive. On top of that, he needed to worry about getting falsely accused by the red guard, even though he was just a minor account for the village official but not a party member. Although he still supports the government, he condemns the great leap forward movement, the red guard, especially the so-called "Gang of Four."
I will never understand people like your granddad. How in the frick do they still support the ccp after living through this n seeing all the lies 1st hand. Baffling
If he still supports the government, then he is part of the problem.
It's mind-blowing to me to see how many young people actually think communism or socialism is a good idea. They think that it is some paradise idea and actively fight to be able to vote for it. It makes me sad
"although he still supports the government" ahhhh so he's senile too. Or just too proud to admit he got duped.
@@squizzyicetea You are so one-sided. Look at how strong China is now. How fast China develop. You only look at the mistake we made so you negate the communism.
When even USSR thinks you are too extreme
It’s really heartbreaking that the people of China especially the younger generations are completely left in the dark about this, while mao is everywhere even on their currency.
According to other posts in these comments, it is passed on by word of mouth in private.
While the West has it’s murderers on all their currencies. Gtfoh with this pompous bs.
Benjamin Franklin didn’t force 60 million people into starvation dude, sure the west has its problems but a history of murderous communism isn’t one of them.
我知道，但他依然是我心中很伟大的领袖
This is happening in west , it's about education of history. That's y ccp killed teachers. Learning from their mistakes they have infiltrated west education system while the generals build the communes(15 min citys) we will have nothing and be happy they say smh while promoting ccp as a great standard for the new world order. The mass migration in process
This should be MANDATORY for every single American college student.
Couldn't agree more, given the ahistorical 'wokeism' of academia these days.
@@bluegregory6239 I do agree that we should study this event and learn from the mistakes. I think there are many takeaways from the failures of communist China and Russia.
I would not want to be hasty though and completely rule out all aspects of socialism or communism due to these failures. It would be just as folly to condemn all aspects of capitalism due to the failure of the Hitler's Germany or the multitude of capitalist third world countries.
I hope we can find the perfect balance one day but studying the mistakes of our ancestors
Why not for Chinese, sorry? Stalin did the same to Ukrainians and remote Russian provinces
@@chrps0at0cops feel free to explain how Hitler's Germany is a bad example of capitalism.
would it even matter? they can watch videos of current events, and still swear the opposite.
An unbiased view from a Hong Kong citizen! Many mainland Chinese have a very different view of their history.
at least 45 million of those views have been forever silenced
@@sheilafontaine9021 nice!
@@sheilafontaine9021 Depends on who writes the history? Have you been to China? I have many times. What about the Japanese before and during the 2ndWW, Nanjing, Unit 731, the British Opium war, and the taking of Hong Kong. All the foreign countries (UK, USA, Germany, etc) carved up a bit of China for their own interest. Many of the older generations still think that Mao did many good things (but not all)! The younger generation is more and more western in its views and outlook.
Talk about selective news media, I just tried to view a Chinese report on Xinjiang province and the page is blocked! Oh, I live in the UK. Just because someone says it's true does not make it factually correct, you are being told the full and truthful version. I know many people who lived through this period. They have always been honest (good and bad) about this time.
They cant talk about it or they end up in boxite mine.
I lived in a food insecure family as a child, and it greatly affected me (and still does). To learn of this, and witness the testimony and videos of these people and their plight hurts my soul.
Whether I agree or not with whatever ideology is irrelevant- human suffering is human suffering. May those affected find better times, and may those no longer with us find peace.
same. couldn't agree more.
whether you agree with whatever ideology is 100% relevant.
@@AR15andGOD that's THEIR way of excusing the socialists, and maintaining their adherence to their sick ethos. Otherwise, why even mention it?
@@AR15andGOD sure if you're talking about the leadership. It's definitely relevant yes. But if you're considering the suffering of the people, it is not. They were lied to and misled. All with the intentions of sacrificing their present for a better future for their children.
The ideology caused it!
I had a coworker who was a PhD in chemistry who had to leave because intellectuals were being murdered in China . He had 2 children and his wife elected to stay in China .
Are they still alive by staying there ?
Seeing the poor children suffering makes me tear up
fun fact: Mao Zedong had green teeth because every morning he used to wash his teeth with tea and then chew tea leaves. His personal doctor was worried he might get dental issues but Mao told him "Tigers never brush their teeth" 🤦🏻♂️
lol cracked me up
@ Ying Yang . True . Mentioned by his personal physician .
咱还是看点货真价实的东西吧。他的那个私人医生的东西毫无可信度。
He was a Psychopath pure and simple!
@@desortinyrodmann3702 They found out during the embalming process
Knowing all of this, those current western journalists who still to this day spout the Communist party line, deserve the harshest condemnation.
They're the ones who want to be on the elite side of socialism or just 'useful idiots'. There is only super-wealthy and dirt poor in that system. I'll stick to capitalism and our multi-strata class system. I'll stick to reaping the fruits of my own labor!
Who does that?
So a bullet to the head I agree
@@Hahaha41241who doesn’t? If you don’t know, you’ve been indoctrinated.
@@Hahaha41241 been asleep for a few years, eh? Lol it isn't just journalists either. It's called "greener grass syndrome" in my circle. People THINK they're getting the shaft, when in reality they're surprisingly well taken care of. Ignorance is bliss, sure. But it also makes the sheep arrogant.
I think this is where China's exotic cuisine culture came from. Being forced to eat anything from insects to dogs, cats, lizards, etc. for years, convinced many that anything is good to eat.
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Exotic? Evil and psychotic is what it is..
@@ulfingvar1not evil if you’re going through starvation you’ll find something to eat.
They dug up bodies, just to eat it.
racist
Thanks!
We should all learn the lesson of unquestioned compliance and how dangerous it is to our society.
We should all learn the lesson that there is no such thing as a socialist paradise.
@@stephentucker6548 If people use brute force to get their way we won't live long enough to know if the world can be heavenly
Lol, agreed. Look at the blind compliance (by many) in the west in the last 2 years too. Like a mass hypnosis
Yes these societies also come in many forms but alway controlled by the elites
Unquestioned compliance as in the way trumps following does whatever he tells them to?
I feel sick seeing so much injustice!
says the person who has actully never even seen what actul injusticeis actully like in the real world
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
I was also in the Pol Pot EuroChinese communist facilities for 6 months and my parents and Me siblings suffered exchanging our gold for food and lastly, we returned to Vietnam by the Soviet Vietnamese small Viking ship. Thank God, we survived to be in The USA.
Thanks!
This is so eye opening. I’ve never heard this story. Some of us get so caught up in such trivial matters we’re ignorant of the realities of this world.
REALLY? How bout Stalin’s purge in the 1930’s when 20+ million died or were murdered? He took land from farmers and divided it up to the ppl. I believe each family got 10 acres. NONE OF THEM KNEW HOW TO GROW FOOD! The NKVD would come around at harvest time and take EVERYTHING leaving nothing for the workers. Communism is a CROCK OF SIT!
My grandma is a survivor of great leap forward, in her village, there are totally 72 people died of farmine.
Not 72 million?
@@tamdingphuntsok9280 only "in her village" though
I love the like "women were liberated from their maternal duties to work in the fields" nothing more liborating than toiling away for days on end for no pay.
My parents lived in the city during those years, they still vividly remember the bizarre things they were told to do, beat drums and things so sparrows have no places to land or perch, give up any old metal objects so they can be melted to "make steel"; they still refer to that period "the three year of natural disaster"; my father side has large family with a single mother, with food ration coupons, grandmother would go hungry so the kids can use the coupons. My college friend's father was in very rural village in Fujian, things were much much worse for them during those years.
Let's not forget this doctrine was exported and implemented lock, stock and barrel to Cambodia 20 years later, with equally disasterous results.
Let's not forget Communist Vietnam also supported that party during the Second Indochina War, and maybe even the USA too since it was there, but another irony is that you imps and your narratives love Communist Vietnam now.
@@tritium1998 One. of the greatest ironies in modern history is that China and the US both supported Cambodia. The only historical parallel that springs to mind is the USA's inexplicable support of Pakistan, a major Chinese client and in some ways the facilitator of North Korea's nuclear program. Shameful in both cases.
@@bluegregory6239 Its not inexplicable. it just seemingly makes no sense if you dont know any historical context.
in the cold war, halting the spread of communism was the absolute highest focus and Pakistan was on board. They signed up to SEATO in the 1950s and this later came in handy when the russians invaded afghanistan. support was funnelled to the Mujahideen (not the taliban) via Pakistan and this eventually lead to the russias exit and contributed to the soviet unions collapse. Unfortunately, as we know nations may agree on some things they have their own addenda's and pakistan being an islamic moron state also supported their home grown taliban and encouraged them to spread into afghanistan to spread their brand of islam through the region which they did after the russians left, destroying the now exhausted local fighters and conquering afghanistan, which of course they still control to this day, probably permanently damaging the area.
Same goes in many cases. The USA supported certain elements inside cambodia because they were against the communists, but they didnt win.
International support and diplomacy is a very tricky thing. A lot of the time it doesnt work out the way you would like, times and governments change, and another element is while you may not agree with a certain governments attitudes or policies, if you walk away from them it is likely they will simply turn to your enemies for support instead, leaving that region completely under their influence and that might be even worse as your enemies will get a say in what happens.
So you see, there is a lot to think about.
The history teaches us that nobody learns its lessons. Unfortunately
Terrifying, how one psychopath can mobolize the mobs ( mostly proud youths), and even turn them to hate their own parents, teachers, and literally devour one another. The price of killing sparrows
Literally what’s happening in the u.s today…
Literally what’s happening in the u.s today…
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
Cult mentality/hive mind!.
Happened in Germany, happened in Russia..
Just cannot help getting teary and emotional again and again watching this ... Heavens, why so much suffering for Chinese people, my country, my race?! I'm so sad because I know it's all true - my own grandmother on my mother's side died of starvation then! following her husband who as the head of the village in the government hang himself when communist's "Chinese liberation army" came.
Hello, I'm from Sichuan. It was really a great tragedy to think about that year.
All this can only be blamed on the incompetence of the national government, which made them win.，Alas, it's all fate.
"Dare to think" is highly ironic, given the opposition of the party to anyone thinking.
It was a threat, not an invitation
@@imnotracistbut-9559 hahaha
This is the best documentary on the great leap forward showing what it really was. This was about as bad if not worst then the Holocaust. This is the worst display of human evil I've ever seen.
I agree great documentary and in terms of pure death toll it's much worse
But just because it's worse doesn't mean it removes the significance surrounding the evil of either event
Both are horrible horrible events as a result of terrible government policies and I only hope that they are never forgotten or defended
Actually dozens of times worse
@@rejvaik00 I would agree, but often the great leap forward is forgotten by the west and often hidden by the Chinese Gov, while the Holocaust is justly remembered with reverence.
Agree .
I understand what you mean by that, but you just can't make this comparison, because both of these things ar bad but it's really two very uncomparable situations you are talking about. If you would want to make such arguments, you should talk about china's and SSRS communism measures, it is more appropriate and comparable.
People in America complain they are oppressed. They don't even know the meaning of the word
Yep, and they think they want THIS.
lunatics...
Unfortunately you are right, fortunately I am not one of those Americans. I am an American that is grateful for the country I live in, believe me I am not the most well-off. Doing okay but far from great. But still grateful. It's sad that people in my country are taking small things and things that don't even actually happen and call themselves oppressed. Because it's taking the focus off real issues and fact that they overemphasize the issues they're dealing with, people start to not care. It's annoying and obnoxious. Especially when they cry about being oppressed for whatever reason but at the same time want to oppress other people and to force them to change how they are. It is a small percentage of our society. But they are getting a lot of attention and with social media and the internet have a very loud mic. Which is allowing them to grow and allowing them to influence.
@@intrigued16 exactly. I think there are more of us than we realize,but by our nature we are not the loud mouths of society and by their nature, they are.
@ Bob Smith . Agree .
@@intrigued16 . Agree .
Thank you so much for this video. For making easy education and brining light to such a topic. Love the people who interviewed and the interviewers. Thank you for this video c:
This was absolutely heartbreaking and devastating... Mao Zedong showed no remorse for a loss of life.!!!! He had none.. he wouldn't even accept any kind of responsibility for not having nearly enough people planning crops during that greatly forward plan to industrialize China, what you love to somewhere around 38 to 40 plus million people starving to death...
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Great leap forward
China was a country developed under very low foundation not like western rich country, Pre modern China facing Opium war, 8 western nation war, British invasion, Japan invasion ,Civil war, Famine, China was the most populated country in the world, China was reformed by Deng Xiaoping it take about 30yrs to archive today status. China Development wasn't a charity but the struggle of our generation.
@@danielloh2166 what on earth do you mean for us to understand ?
Can't you just say " yes Mao was out of his depth and couldn't care less about the Chinese people"?
@@danielloh2166 so you think it was worth 10s of millions starving to death?
Hearing a lot of similar rhetoric in "civilized" western countries these days. Something something those who do not learn their history something something.
About 25% of the world's total prison population is in the United States, which holds about 2.19 million prisoners as of 2019 (1.38 million in federal and state prisons, 745,200 in jails).
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Prison Population by State 2023.
I remember being stunned in college that a guy in my dorm was a committed communist. I think we've tried it enough times in different societies with different levels of development to know it doesn't work
Just posted a comment on western educations in the last few decades coddling communist. Glad to see I am not the only one who sees this.
The irony is that western communists are very socially sensitive... Yet ignore alllllll the harm communism must enact before it even comes underway.
Technically, all political systems are f Ed up. And pure anarchy is impossible. We’re human, we’re morons. Whatever we touch seems to go sideways eventually. Communism is never done “right “ and never will. But the philosophy sounds good.
So tell me, do you condemn the deaths capitilsm causes or only leftists economical orginizations?
No offense to you but, it is very ignorant to believe anybody supports this. They are probably supporting communism as defined by Marx who invented it, rather than the dictatorships who used the word to gain power. In the U.S., it will be the same thing but, they will call it capitalism because that is the term more likely to lull the masses here. In reality, they are all some version of fascism, but nobody calls themselves that for obvious reasons. That is what has never worked and just keeps happening. Mostly because people fail to recognize it for what it is each time it starts happening again.
Capitalism is not an ideology. Communism is.
This was one of the best doc's I have seen in quite a while and this is a very necessary one.
@@Neuroburger found the boot licker
I think this shows how the modern Chinese mindset developed more than any other documentary.
Yes, and the modern CCP is working on ingenious new was of elevating the body count. The only difference now is that the whole world gets to suffer the fall out from the demented plans of the CCP. The ignorance of the Chinese people about the history of their government may kill us all one day. Can't wait for CCP pandemic 2.0!
Its so mortifying what the CCP did to cultural traditions and temple buildings. The four olds were incredible and he ruined it :(
What do you mean?
Chinese culture has always taught it to be loyal to the government allowing the people to be repressed by multiple dynasties and leaders for millenia. It wasn't just Mao.
You can tell how disgusted Frank Dikotter is with communism - we need more well educated people like this sounding the alarm
But he'll condemn with glee the based Austrian artist who was fighting international communism.
Who also massacred 6 million people in gas chambers, get a grip mate
No we need level headed people who can calmly denounce authoritarianism and injustice.
@@jesuschristislord77733 Yeah, the unemployed psychotic drug addicted Austrian "Autist" who ironically was an economic socialist....
I'd say that the disgust could have has less to do with communism it's self than with Authoritarianism. No had freedom, no one but Mao had a say, no one could question the state, no one could push back against the mistakes of the leadership or correct them. China's communism was in name only.
A whole chunk of modern history I knew nothing about. Thank you.
this is fake news
@@erobbwhy is it that as soon as one commemts on something some know it all chips in with a totally un supported remark like this, you should at least provide some evidence.....so please write in.......BUT NOT TO ME.
Really? That is shocking to me. Do you mean communism in general or just china? Did you learn about the Soviet Union?
@@Kunfucious577 China, although I lived there for a year I didn't know about the history, nor do I know much about Russia.
@@timrutter5025 sorry if I’m annoying you but I have a few more questions. How old are you and did you go to school in the US? What did you learn for history lessons?
Thanks
You know you're in a worrysome time when you're
A: surprised anyone would make this video at this time and
B: even more surprised UA-cam hasn't taken this down yet.
Why would UA-cam take it down?
@@blondezeke6640: It has been my experience that UA-cam rarely takes ANYTHING down. They usually demonetize videos they deem objectionable.
This won’t get taken down, it doesn’t go against the “mainstream” Political agenda.
Let me get this straight. One man had absolute power over a country of 650 million people. He made dissidence a crime punishable by death. He took away all individual rights, including private property, so that "the individual was no more than a cog in a great machine". What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
The PRC makes the Imperium of Man look humane and caring by comparison. The Imperium at least TRIES to feed its people
You should not take a history event out of the context. 1) China was poor at that time under strong influence from the west. 2) savour union was the only successful model available at that time. So is it a bad attend? Absolutely. Was Mao did it just for personal power? I highly doubt it.
@@ankailiu3365 yes
@@ankailiu3365 like the high ups of the Party, he sure didn’t suffer the consequences of his policies, or did what he told the people to: I didn’t see him rushing to live in a commune.
@@ankailiu3365 the west was a successful model at the time too. And what about say aging Kong
"Mao's great leap forward" more like forty five million somersaults back.
Too true,
And that was just a starting point there are millions more that he killed
Agree
He gained millions more. Millions of people died in other countries despite their smaller populations.
total deaths of european imperialism = 750 million+ and its still going up hundreds of millions every single year..
One word of advice: if your authorities ever try to take away property rights, do everything you can to prevent it. Even if you are almost assured to die doing so. Because if they do, the result will be far worse than death.
Open fire. The 2nd amendment was recognized by our illustrious founders for a reason. DON'T BE AFRAID OF IT! BE GRATEFUL FOR IT! It is YOUR right, not bestowed by government, bestowed by GOD! Every American's birthright, and should be the birthright of EVERY citizen of the world.
You will own nothing and be happy. Coming to America.
one death is a tragedy. a million is a statistic. 50 million is a great leap forward
The human cost was and still is astronomical.
its only in china itself not counting what the amaricans did to
@@cindyhuang7021 I'm only referring to China . Any nation on this planet has their hands dirty
@@godstomper including the usa goverment
@@cindyhuang7021 all power corrupts
For two years, I worked in Shanghai. I was horrified to see a smiling Mao on RMB banknotes.
Taking teachers to a labour camp and labelling it a "re-education camp". They really don't realise the irony.
Very well done. I've studied time period leading up to this extensively, so this gave me some great jumping off points to look further.
Thank you for making this a documentary. Very enlightening.
Truly an awesome documentary about a horrendously dark period of the (already bloody) 20th century.
This is one of the best if not the best documentary this channel made. Sooooo good
Truly one of the most tragic incidents in human history. 😢
Worst than German
It was not an incident
@@GF-mf7ml About the same, dude..
"Between 1950 and 1980, China experienced the most rapid sustained increase in life expectancy of any population in documented global history." - Babiarz KS, Eggleston K, Miller G, Zhang Q. An exploration of China's mortality decline under Mao: A provincial analysis, 1950-80. Popul Stud (Camb). 2015;69(1):39-56. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2014.972432. Epub 2014 Dec 13. PMID: 25495509; PMCID: PMC4331212.
@@chipe420 The Great leap forward is a relatively short period of time compared to 50-80. So is it necessary for tens of millions of people to be persecuted unnessarily/wrongly worse than pigs in order that "under some circumstances, general education of the population may amplify the effectiveness of public health interventions."?
"How do we fix our food shortage?"
"Simple. We outlaw hunger."
cant have famine if we dont call it famine.
cant have poverty if we dont call it poverty
cant have covid if we dont call it covid
This is by far the most saddistic man-made disaster in human history after ww2.
Mayank Anand . Very well said .
@Bob Shingles not even close. Like wtf even is that comparison???? You really compare an entire country being starved to death to a disease outbreak. Literally shut up
There was a similar situation in the Ukraine under stalin
THANK YOU FOR SPREADING TRUTH!
IGNORANT COLLEGE STUDENTS NEED TO WATCH THIS.
A brilliant documentary.
This needs to be discussed & is a subject to educate others on evil people in history. When I mention “the great leap foward” in China people don’t know what I’m talking about 😔
Then you must have never been to china.
@@hennagaijin7856 Yes, it is on our history book.
@@hennagaijin7856 The worst part of it is that some political leaders have separated politics from science even to this day. The great leap forward could be considered as a failed social experiment with significant human cost... but it is always more important to teach children scientific thinking rather than teach them to waste time on blaming a dead communist leader.
@@nepenthy9804 I think she meant that most people don't know about the horrors that happened in the Great Leap Forward, my Chinese friend didn't even know that Mao was essentially history's biggest mass murderer, he thought Mao was someone who wanted peace and was a saint
@@danix4883 Few people in China know the fact of the leap forward, even those born in 40s50s,Mao is always shaped as a saint in Chinese history，the only reason why the authorities cover the truth is that for CCP it matters if they can still last their legitimacy or not，but the the truth is nothing more than dust. And she is lying，in China we call her little pink who earns from gov to polish the dictatorship into paradise
Communism and socialism is all about the collective. Individuality does not and never will exist. However, there's always the handful of individuals at the top of the heap who will always benefit greatly and who cannot be touched or criticized without incurring the wrath of the party. There's never any deviation from this program.
correct
Implying the people benefited more before. It's not like you own all individuals top to bottom either.
This is true regardless of whatever system humans come up with. Humans rarely handle power well.
world will always be about who on top.we will never be equal..existence of life is haves & have nots..how can India have equality with breeding apparatus of the Masse..you do know major Cull will be the future.10 million from over populated selected & vapourize. 6 kids per cant continue..
Swened n Denmark are socialist.
The hunger continued in rural area til 1980s ( Not as severe as those 3 years but impressive for those who lived through). It was just covered by the bigger case of cultural revolution. Farmers suffer the most. Same story repeats...
This should be part of school curriculum to show what central planning and centralized power results in
I've always been horrified when I've read something about the Great Leap Forward. However, seeing actual video footage makes it even worse to comprehend.
It's happening RIGHT THIS MINUTE in North Korea, and NOTHING is being done!
@@conanthegreat4418 This is happening in west , it's about education of history. That's y ccp killed teachers. Learning from their mistakes they have infiltrated west education system while the generals build the communes(15 min citys) we will have nothing and be happy they say smh while promoting ccp as a great standard for the new world order.
Alot of people in the US need to see this. Especially bewitched college students
They love Mao. Every catchphrases in my liberal state and city uses "foward". Like forward for achievement" or on forward always"
Communist is leftist, and I don’t disagree with what the communism ideology says, and I may not disagree with Maoist ideology, but I definitely disagree with what he did. I honestly hated him.
It's beginning now, in America, with this Marxist takeover through Joe Biden and his Frankfurt School minions. First thing to go is the supply chain. You see tremendous shortages everywhere which is connected to the administrations REFUSAL to expand American gas & oil production. Now, the Communists are burning down food production facilities all over the country, and Black Lives Matter, a self-professed Marxist organization, basically controls the narrative everywhere.
@@lirenxin5472 you are the problem. You're too dumb to see it
@@rally_chronicles Oh? I guess you don't have relatives that were persecuted in the Cultural Revolution then. And don't tell me that it wasn't Mao's fault; do you really think the Gang of Four would have gained so much power if it wasn't for him?
Heartbreaking but critical to understand. Thanks to everyone who produced this doc!. Powerful documentary. Don't forget or excuse the mistakes of history..
Yes very heartbreaking, im having a heavy heart rn as im thinking my own love/loved ones….. who suffered under Mao…. There is that part empty part of me that just feels like I missed an opportunity to get the elderly primary sources of my own family’s ancestry….cause ALL of my great grandparents already met their destiny…….
Put a guy on a raised stage and give him a microphone and people think he's God . 🙄May I ask what is wrong with people? Anyway humanity always pays a grave price for this kind of misunderstanding for not seeing reality.
my grandgrandparents also experienced hunger (not in China, but in other country, i won't tell you). when hunger has started they were wealthy but they were forced to give their food and cows and everything to government as everyone in the village. most of villagers had died and my grandgrandparents were eating even tree bark. their children and parents died, but they survived. it's sad
Based on your last name, I'm gonna assume it's somewhere in eastern Europe, probably under the boot of that POS collective known as the USSR.
That's very sad. I can't believe that some governments would do stuff like this to their people
@@EveofPyrite Only communist countries. In their eyes people are not human, just a tool to their "cause". Communists are pure evil!
This is the most terrifying and quite frankly most depressing event in history I’ve ever learnt about by far, how so few people in power could spell death for the millions feeding them nothing but lies as they starved their own people to death. Rest in peace to those who died in the struggle to survive we will never forget
says the person in amarica who is acctully doing the same thing to the first gen chinase studants there
@@cindyhuang7021 I’m English we love Chinese students here because our universities would be half empty without them and many of our local businesses would’ve shut down a long time ago especially where I live
@@cindyhuang7021 says the one who can't spell and doesn't live in america.
@@vintce6019 says the one who is basicly saying that all asians dont have rights and that even tho we asians are actully white it is still saying that we dont have equal rights and are basicly better off being a black minority
Time to learn about North Korea ! If there ever was an example of the disparities between a Democratic society and an Autocratic society one need only look at at North & South Korea. Democracies are not perfect; only representative of any societies attempt to better themselves and their families.
It’s worth mentioning that the ideas used for collectivization of agriculture were based on Trofim Lysenko’s “Lysenkoism”, which posited that plants would grow better in a communistic type set up, all together in bunches, to support eachother. All the traditional farmers had already been killed, and lysenokism lead to massive starvation there as well.
It never ceases to amaze me how many times collectivized farming got proven to be a bad idea yet every communist country made it one of their first priorities. Most of the time it ended in famine yet they just kept trying it again and again with each leader thinking "well I know better than they did" and seeing the same results. They were often made worse since often the new collectiivized farms were run by people without much knowledge of farming or the locals so they often made terrible mistakes.
@@arthas640 it's actual madness to think people with zero agricultural experience thought they were qualified to tell others how to farm. That's a core issue, it's just insane. No system can function if it's led by literal morons.