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To: RealMuLan who wrote (31600)	10/15/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 94695

I'm just basing what I said on the official statistics published by the Chinese government in recent years on the state of the economy and living standards. The "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" periods and the years between and after were total disasters in terms of almost anything you look at. David

To: RealMuLan who wrote (31600)	10/15/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

ot de nile ain't just a river in Egypt is it? Chinese intellectuals were sent to work in the countryside with peasants, or forced to do hard labor- thousands died of starvation and disease and who knows how many more were beaten to death by red guards after being paraded through the streets and cursed and spat upon (and let's not forget all the intellectuals who committed suicide). Let's add in all those (including the peasant farmers) who died in the famines when the Chinese government allocated major food reserves to the cities and let the rural people starve, so that the problems China was having with food production could be hidden from the rest of the world. As far as I know no American intellectuals were sent out to the wheat fields of Nebraska and forced to work, nor were they marched through the streets and beaten in public forums, nor were they sent to do hard labor. While the blacklists of the McCarthy era are deplorable they do not compare to what happened in China. You could compare what happened to Chinese intellectuals with Russian intellectuals in the Gulags- but not with anything that happened in America.