I have read that Mao’s program was the largest man caused starvation famine in history ( I guess succeeding what Stalin did in Russia and UKraine)
Yet Mao has worshippers in the WH and his face on Christmas tree ornaments
He did. What’s worse was that it was the result of laughably stupid farming policies, literally thinking at the level of a kindergarten child who had never been on a farm or seen how plants grow. So one can’t even chalk up the death toll to deliberate malice like Stalin. Mao’s idea of improving farming was literally “hey I bet this would work, so let’s do it” and woe to anyone who even hesitated to agree, let alone voice concern.