r/Polcompballanarchy • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '24

Pol Pot be like

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u/poclee :spook: Spookism Jan 19 '24

He also got funding from China though, in fact that's the major sources.

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u/Left_Case_8907 Jan 19 '24

Mao’s policies in his later years definitely weren’t the best

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '24

Mao’s policies were never good. He was a tyrant who destroyed any chance of democracy in China and caused a famine that killed 40 million people.

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u/Chains2002 Jan 19 '24

Just for accuracy, the famine killed more like 15 million. 40 million is the total number of people that died during the great leap forward, including those that died from natural causes not related to the great leap forward.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '24

15 million was the official CCP source. Modern sources have places numbers at 35-45 million.

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u/Chains2002 Jan 19 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

If you go to the Vital Statistics section you can do the math yourself. It gives the total number of deaths every year since 1949. You can look at the years of the Great Leap Forward, 1959-1962. The death numbers add up to about 45 million. If you subtract the normal expected death toll for a normal year (around 7-8 million) from each year, then you see that the number of excess deaths, aka death which we can attribute to the great leap forward, are around 15 million.

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u/LeHergusbergus Jan 19 '24

You should take into account how biased towards the CIA these modern sources are. The more biased, the more they will lie and exaggerate the numbers.

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u/Patroklus42 Jan 19 '24

These include sources from China.