Posted on 02/10/2004 1:11:09 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Three communist countries are responsible for the world's most devastating famines.
Forcible collectivization of agriculture by Mao Tse-tung caused a famine in the early 1960s, which cost the lives of between 27 million and 40 million Chinese people. V.I. Lenin and Josef Stalin between them created two famines in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of at least 12 million people.
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