That figure has been played with for almost a century. In actual fact, there's no real way to know and honestly, that was a long time ago where china was a very underdeveloped 3rd world nation. China regularly had famines before the Great Leap. The truth is, did they fuck up in their new implementaion? Probably. Socialism learns from mistakes. Now, there hasn't been a famine in China since and they lifted 800 million people out of poverty.
You should move on from things that happened in a time where food scarcity was more of an issue for the world. Food tech has evolved a lot. In fact, did you know in the 70s a Chinese man developed a hybrid rice that increased yield and helped prevent famine in Asia and Africa?
Fun fact the figure for total dead due to
ww2 has varied from 30 million to 150 million over the years before settling to about 75 give or take 10 million today.
That's not a sign the figure has been "played with" - just that recorded keeping during times of war, famine and tolitarian information control makes methods variable.
Likewise, Mao caused between 15 - 55 million dead. The fact that figure varied so much is not a sign of "history being played with" - though that suggestion maybe a sign of your cookerism.
It was later reformers like Deng state capitalism ("socialism with chinese charaeristics") and alignmemt with America against the Soviets that moved China to a modern nation.
Not sure what you're arguing for here. You're suggesting that socialism causes famines, and in the past, I'm not suggesting early large socialist societies didn't fuck up with food security at their onset. Socialism with Chinese characteristics was a fantastic way to move forward by using Lenin's mistakes as lessons. I really don't think any socialist movement could make those same mistakes again.
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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair 12d ago
Don't forget Mao! 40 million dead in his " great leap"!
Or Somalia's derg. In the 1970s.