A historian wonders: Where is the photographic evidence of Mao's disaster? In the Great Leap Forward (Into the Abyss), at least 45 million people died of starvation and oppression over some 4 years of absolute hell on earth, but visual documentation is largely lacking. Honestly, how does it look that the some officials in the Soviet Union was more forthcoming about the murderous famine that Stalin created in Ukraine?
One wonders, though, whether if we ever saw the Chinese photos, we would be thoroughly sickened. The end of the article details the only photo of the famine that the author ever saw, and the description is horrifying.
UPDATE: No photos of the Great Famine, but you can still get an eyeful of the Communist propaganda posters from the same period. Surreal.
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