Russia had something like 5 major famines that killed ~40 million people in the 19th century, but no one talks about "tsarist food shortages" that stopped under communism.
Like the past thousand years of Chinese history has included a yearly provincial-level famine, but Mao is uniquely evil for causing the last famine by trying to break that cycle.
As I understand it the famines in China didn't get really bad until the British got them hooked on opium and drug lords started having it grown instead of food.
The most important thing Mao did for China was get rid of the warlords
Russia had something like 5 major famines that killed ~40 million people in the 19th century, but no one talks about "tsarist food shortages" that stopped under communism.
Like the past thousand years of Chinese history has included a yearly provincial-level famine, but Mao is uniquely evil for causing the last famine by trying to break that cycle.
As I understand it the famines in China didn't get really bad until the British got them hooked on opium and drug lords started having it grown instead of food.
The most important thing Mao did for China was get rid of the warlords
I'd say his policies succeeded in breaking the cycle :mao-wave: