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What was the Great Leap Forward? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I know it happened in China but there's so many conflicting answers I don't know what's right, but I keep hearing it was bad. Why would anyone in China want to perform the Great Leap Forward if it was bad?

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 months ago

I don’t know much about it. I would start here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Why would anyone in China want to perform the Great Leap Forward if it was bad?

Does this question not seem rather absurd? Zeroth of all, people don’t generally do things that will be “bad” if they have the foreknowledge that it will turn out badly.