Originally Posted by Alastair

Officer of Engineers,nice to see u here. Undoubtly,chinese people has suffered the famine during 1958-1961.The reason why this would happened including several factors as follows:
1.policy mistake,that mean the "Great Leap Forward"
2.food supplies declined by the climate
3.repay a great number of debt to USSR by food as the currency in a short time because of the broken relationship
4.as an agricultural country,it's hard for china to against the famine due to crop failures.

there is no denying that chinese authority responsible for this.BUT,as i mentioned above,things are more complicated than ordinary people thought.
what confused me is that people here are prone to link this famine to the govern by chinese communist party,and try their best the testify that tregedy why took place because of the "evil" communist.

as for the number died in this famine.it is still not unclosed by chinese administration. however it's really ridiculous the number hit to the 30 millions,Enzo Ferrari,why don't you say the number was up to 80 millions or even more?you could romance the number wot you want if that could make you feel better.

i estimate there was nearly 1 million died during 1958-1961 in China.My grandpraents told me in that rough period,everyone was starve.unbearable hungry and weak.but they were still alive.and yes,some people died indeed,several people gone in their village due to the innutrition. but please remember,lots of chinese historical record show famine was frequent during several thousands years. aslo you can search the informations about several big famine when china was under Kuomintang governed.How could you prove that it is because of the communist's "evil" rule?