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| After researching local and provincial archives, Frank Dikotter detailed the 1958-62 great famine's vast horror, thus put ] as a monster in the same league as Hitler and Stalin, and yet many Chinese still blame the famine on the Soviet Union, as they were brainwashed into believing that it was Soviet Union who was snatching food from the mouths of starving Chinese by insisting that Beijing export grain to repay Moscow's loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/mirsky_09_10.html|title=Jonathan Mirsky 'Livelihood Issues'|last=Mirsky|first=Jonathan|publisher=Literary Review|accessdate=21 November 2010}}</ref> | After researching local and provincial archives, Frank Dikotter detailed the 1958-62 great famine's vast horror, thus put ] as a monster in the same league as Hitler and Stalin, and yet many Chinese still blame the famine on the Soviet Union, as they were brainwashed into believing that it was Soviet Union who was snatching food from the mouths of starving Chinese by insisting that Beijing export grain to repay Moscow's loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/mirsky_09_10.html|title=Jonathan Mirsky 'Livelihood Issues'|last=Mirsky|first=Jonathan|publisher=Literary Review|accessdate=21 November 2010}}</ref> | ||
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"Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62", ISBN 0802777686, is a book written by Professor Frank Dikotter, Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China on leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, published by Bloomsbury. According to the author, the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-62 was organized by Mao as a war on people and a war against man-made and natural environment of China.
Dikotter claimed that Mao Tsetung, with the support from his sycophantic and frightened colleagues, was the cause of this China's worst ever famine of modern times, during which at least forty-three million Chinese died, all because of Mao's vision of economically taking over Soviet Union, Britain and even the USA in a few years time. Mao suggested that 'When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill,' and declared that anyone who questioned his policies was a rightist, a toxic term eventually applied to thirteen million Party members. In the process, Maoists directly killed 2.5 millions out of 45 million famine victims, destroyed 40% of the nation's housing, and broke the balance between humans and their natural environment.
After researching local and provincial archives, Frank Dikotter detailed the 1958-62 great famine's vast horror, thus put Mao Tsetung as a monster in the same league as Hitler and Stalin, and yet many Chinese still blame the famine on the Soviet Union, as they were brainwashed into believing that it was Soviet Union who was snatching food from the mouths of starving Chinese by insisting that Beijing export grain to repay Moscow's loans.
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- ^ Gray, John (September 20 2010). "Review: Mao's Great Famine ..." New Statesman. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Mirsky, Jonathan. "Jonathan Mirsky 'Livelihood Issues'". Literary Review. Retrieved 21 November 2010.