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Looking for an article, video, podcast, etc that debunks the western propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Defending Socialism: Deconstructing the "Communism Killed 100 Million" Lie (podcast)

An exploration of China's mortality decline under Mao: A provincial analysis, 1950–80 (study)

Revisiting Alleged 30 Million Famine Deaths during China’s Great Leap (article) (article)

Famines in China Pre-PRC:

  • 1907 Great Qing Famine — 25 million dead
  • 1920–1921 North China famine — 0.5 million dead
  • 1928–1930 Chinese famine — 3 million dead
  • 1936–1937 famine — 5 million dead
  • 1942–1943 famine — 2.5 million dead
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Should be stickied.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Famines in China Pre-PRC

One point I bring up along these lines is that AES states are the ones who ended famines in their countries.

If a machine breaks down regularly, you take over maintenence, it breaks down once more then never ever again, you fixed the machine.