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Episode 15: The Great Leap Forward-Digging China's Grave

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:24:02
Publish Date: 2017-04-25 04:30:00
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Whether digging irrigation ditches or working backyard furnaces, the people of China were forced to smolder their lives away in the all-consuming destruction that was the Great Leap Forward. 

This is Part II in a multi-part series on the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958-1962. It focuses on the horrors of collectivization and the inefficiencies of Mao Zedong's schemes. 

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