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The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikötter
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June 1, 2024 – Started Reading
June 1, 2024 – Shelved as: history
June 1, 2024 – Shelved
June 1, 2024 –
20.0% "My God, the barbarity, cruelty and carnage of the Communisation of China exceeds anything else I have read. Mao introduced a foreign concept of "landlord" and artificially created classes where none existed in order to turn the poorer peasants against the more well off peasants. Even though there was really no such thing as rich peasants."
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