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Release Date 2012.06.16
Genre Documentary
EPiSODE iNFO
Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale.
The Great Leap Forward conceived by Mao so that China could
drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and achieve autonomy
from the might of the neighbouring USSR led to a catastrophic
famine resulting in the death of between 36 and 55 million people.
Three years of natural disasters : it is in these terms that the
Chinese Communist Party today justifies this terrible outcome. But
the tragedy was masked by an official lie, because while China was
starving to death, the grain stores were full.
Based on previously unheard testimony by survivors, rare archive
footage, secret documents and interviews with the leading historians
on this catastrophe, this film provides, for the first time, an
insight into the folly of the Great Leap Forward . It examines the
mechanisms and political decisions that led to famine, stripping
away the incredible secrecy surrounding the campaign, and exposing
the lie which continues even today as to who was responsible, and
the true human cost.
http://www.arturomio.com/3/television/1346/la-grande-famine-de-mao/
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