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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wasn't the great leap forward by Mao the biggest mass murder in world history, according to historians not governments?

Doesn't whitewashing that amount to Holocaust denial level cultural blindness?

I know nothing, quick Google search.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

I know nothing, quick Google search.

lol we know, you don't have to tell us.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In short, no, that was cold war propaganda. These intro articles get into some of the details of the Mao era:

[-] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah lots of people died but the cultural revolution and Great Leap Forward but it has been over for 50 years now, meanwhile how many millions of people have had their lives ruined by US sanctions or wars in the last 70 years? Imperial countries export their misery so that people like you and me can live nice comfortable lives. Meanwhile we point at other countries who were deliberately impoverished for our benefit. When leaders in those countries try to take back their wealth they’re assassinated, when trade unionists try to organise to give the workers better rights they’re tortured and then assassinated. At least the Great Leap Forward only negatively impacted Chinese people, meanwhile you get to sit smugly on your computer or phone and eat your chocolate bar that was built or farmed with the blood of poor labourers in Africa and when those poor people try to rise up to better their conditions our governments and their fascist lackeys will be there in minutes killing them for you so you can keep getting cheap treats.

Also do you really think there is no political repression in the west? I recently read the obituary of a guy who was in my local communist party who was denied work his whole life because he was an „unteachable communist“ being on the wrong side of the ruling classes ideology sucks no matter where you are.

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Do you understand the difference between causing a famine unintentionally and doing mass murder?

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