RE: Meet Steem's #1 Author!

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in steemit •  8 years ago 

Yeah, that's because you're equating poverty with things like Mao's forced famines.

Why don't you bring some citations and take a "Great Leap Forward" in your thinking, comrade?

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"Yeah, that's because you're equating poverty with things like Mao's forced famines."

let me guess, he ate the grain himself?

That would be a neat trick. However his programs were so obviously flawed as to rise to the level of gross negligence, IMO and in history's judgment.

In Russia, huge shipments of grain that were needed by the Russian people - who starved en masse without it - was exported for the benefit of the elite. They wanted currency more than they wanted those people who were under their power to live.