Great Leap Forward

...were "the enemy of normal Americans". Dick Armey compared the New Deal and the Great Society to Stalin's Five-Year Plan and Mao's Great Leap Forward - two of the most murderously destructive state experiments in human history. GOP...

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...director Anita Dunn's favorite political philosopher, Mao Zedong, has killed 65 million of its own citizens since 1949 through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and its own Gulag system,...

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...Costs With the end of civil war and the Communist victory in 1949, life expectancy in China increased -- except during Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, a disastrous economic plan that resulted in the starvation of millions from 1959 to...

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...consumerism, and the Chinese characters spelling out "Dare to Think, Dare to Act" (a motto from Mao's social and economic plan, the Great Leap Forward)--run across and down the front of the piece. It is a satire of our intertwined...

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...and, despite all, to his country. Li was born in January 1961 into a poor peasant family in Shandong Province. Mao Zedong's so-called Great Leap Forward had, in reality, been a precipitous plunge into mass disaster, during which his...

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...path. " Mao Tse Tung, former Communist dictator of China. Policies implemented under Mao Tse Tung, including the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and persecution in Tibet, among other policies, led to death of...

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...anywhere from 50 million to 70 million innocents in the initial cleansing of Nationalists, the scouring of the countryside, the failed Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Tibet, and the internal Chinese gulag. Dunn's praise of a...

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...indeed in a league of his own, and made Hitler look like a piker (until Mao came along and out-Stalined even Stalin himself during the Great Leap Forward and the Great Cultural Revolution, which some historians estimate caused up to 60 million...

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...was clear China had renounced that part of Mao's legacy which had resulted in the deaths of millions during the forced famine termed the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s and the killings and incarcerations that were a part of the disastrous...

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There would be plenty of competition for a Best Diver in English Football award. But there would only be one winner if there was recognition for the Best Jumper. That would have to go to Portsmouth's Younes Kaboul whose goalscoring leaps...

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