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The green movement’s rush to transform the energy economy while ignoring the laws of nature and economics calls to mind China’s ruinous Great Leap Forward. By 1957, Mao Zedong had grown ...

Mao Zedong's Communists come down from the ... and even think. His ‘Great Leap Forward’ is intended to be an economic masterplan. Instead, it will drive people across China to the wildest ...

Kennedy RFK → JFK JFK → Richard Nixon Nixon → Chairman Mao That’s right. Mao Zedong, architect of ... “dictator responsible for the Great Leap Forward”? The internet’s world.

The slogan—a sarcastic play on the “Great Leap Forward,” the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to 1962 by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong—has become a ...

China descended into chaos under the direction of its own leader in 1966. Mao Zedong, facing diminished influence after the ...

Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader ... In 1958, Mao launched the "Great Leap Forward" to transform the country's agrarian economy into an industrialized one.