This week I’m going to take a look at the first of two disasters that were the end product of Mao policies. This first, the Great Leap Forward, was ideological and economic in nature but its cost was measured in human terms: millions of human lives.

Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream:

https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad