When Communist Pol Pot took over Cambodia and began mass killings of all who were educated or did not support him, the poverty became so great the people survived by eating insects, and scorpions, and rats. And snakes...
Basically like North Korea, anything the could eat.
They still eat them. Street vendors everywhere had an assortment on the grill.
Mao
The Great Leap Forward
45 million govt killed in three years