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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by varjag on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:14AM (#35885293)
> It's not clear how many died in TSquare but it's a few thousands at most. That's very far from the hundred of millions of people China has.

Mao did kill off millions in the Great Leap, with no dissent.

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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by tibbydudeza on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:54AM (#35885469)
Afaik it was not "planned" unlike Stalin and Beria's NKVD - Mao ordered crows killed to increase crop yields not thinking about the consequences of remove a predator from an ecosystem because the smart folks were either ignorant or afraid of going to a re-education camp.

Mass starvation.

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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by varjag on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:01AM (#35885507)
Mao killed people for mistakes far less than that, didn't he.
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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by George83728 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:55AM (#35886635)
Under Mao's rule, millions of people were overtly executed. It wasn't just Mao's incompetence that got people killed accidentally. He ordered millions of people to be murdered.
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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by powerapple on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:43AM (#35900770)
do you have reference for this? I am Chinese and would like to learn.
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Re:Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM I... by tibbydudeza on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:39PM (#35908069)
The Cultural Revolution.
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