As for China, there was a serious hunger problem, which Communism did rectify.
Are you really that clueless? Oh, they rectified it, alright..
en.wikipedia.org
..."In most cases the party knew very well that it was starving its own people to death." Mao was quoted as saying in Shanghai in 1959: "When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”
In their attempts to survive, Chinese people resorted to hiding, stealing, cheating, pilfering, foraging, smuggling, tricking, manipulating or otherwise outwitting the government. There were reports of armed assaults on granaries or trains. [7]Overall, Dikötter estimates that there were 45 million premature deaths, not 30 million as previously estimated... |
