1950 : Floods, Famine Devastate China

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06 Apr 1950 – FLOOD DISASTERS IN CHINA

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13 May 1950 – CHINA FAMINE RELIEF

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2 Responses to 1950 : Floods, Famine Devastate China

  1. Don B says:

    “In the summer of 1962, China’s president, Liu Shaoqi, warned Mao Zedong that “history will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalism will also be memorialized!” Liu had visited Hunan, his home province as well as Mao’s, where almost a million people died of hunger. Some of the survivors had eaten dead bodies or had killed and eaten their comrades. In “Tombstone,” an eye-­opening study of the worst famine in history, Yang Jisheng concludes that 36 million Chinese starved to death in the years between 1958 and 1962, while 40 million others failed to be born, which means that “China’s total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/books/review/tombstone-the-great-chinese-famine-1958-1962-by-yang-jisheng.html

  2. Andy DC says:

    There were greedy white capitalist males raping the planet and bullying women and people of color, even back in 1950 (sarc).

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