*Great Leap Forward (1 Apr 1958 Jahr – 1 Jul 1962 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Led by Chairman Mao Zedong starting in 1958, he launched a radical campaign to modernize by collectivize work and move from agriculture to industrial production. He made claims to outproduce Great Britain by 3x times as much metals. Due to officials not or miss-reporting local economic disasters an estimated of thirty million people died of starvation in China during the Great Leap Forward. The Soviet Union saw China as moving too fast in communism.

Private farming was prohibited and communes formed.