[TommyDale]

It has been estimated that the death toll was between 30 million and 40 million.

http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/famine/chinese-famine-of-1958-1961/

[SE Mom]

Thanks for the link- my knowledge of that history is...not what it should be.

[agere_contra]

Thanks for the excellent link Tommy.

We must always remember that the Great Famine in China was completely the result of Communist totalitarianism armed with bad science. Everyone of those ~35 million people died because of Agrarian Reform. Communism is the largest killer in history, many times as bad as the Doomsday flu in 1918.