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Originally Posted by Commodore Angryy
You may know in your heart of hearts that it was god, then again, Mao knew in his heart of hearts that steel production was more important than growing food, resulting in the deaths of 300 million.
Nobody KNOWS anything.
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Duh! The ego-driven desire of a national leader to surpass another country (US in Maos case) in some metric and a philosophical question of when we know something for certain are issues that are miles apart.
And I think the famine in China killed dozens rather than hundreds of millions.
Sorry, but a piss poor post I think. Feel free to correct me if you think I had it wrong.
Peter