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Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by Synaesthesia on Monday February 11, 2019 @06:57AM (#19133775)
A great deal of those died due to a famine. If one compares China’s development with India’s you see that over 100 million extra Indians have died since 1947 due to worse medical outcomes. (Amyarta Sen)
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Re:Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tighte... by ekianjo on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:27AM (#19133897)
The famine was a result of collectivization, which had led to disastrous results in other countries which tried that before: such as the USSR experiments in Ukraine. Plus:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Consequence...

> The failure of agricultural policies, the movement of farmers from agricultural to industrial work, and weather conditions led to millions of deaths from severe famine. Many also died from quota-based executions instituted by government officials. The economy, which had improved since the end of the civil war, was devastated.

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