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So let me get this straight...Soviet Union ALSO ran spy flights and from the other direction; no mention of this in Soviet archives either.
China's main agricultural regions, besides Henan and Sichuan, are on the coast. Evidence of mass starvation, death due to starvation, and/or disposing of the bodies resulting from such would've been easily seen by at least ONE contemporary, if that's true at all.
So lets list some facts from 1960:
1. My grandfather, who was a political criminal in the 1960's, survived, and saw no one die. Logically, you'd think that they'd starve the political criminals to death first.
2. There's no mention of this event or associated events in Soviet records.
3. There's no mention of this event or associated events in US or allied records.
4. There's no mention of this event or associated events in China's state records.
5. Every book written about this event was written in the 1980's at the earliest, 30 years after it took place.
In the older thread about the GLF, I posted a demographics chart that showed that 90% of the cohort born in 1955-1965 were still alive and remaining in China as of 1990.
No need to argue about this here though, its off topic and it is just a reply to a dumb@ss troll.
You got no problems with believing that the US committed genocide against the Native Americans despite the same lack of evidences you wanted us to use for the deaths associated with China's Great Leap Forward. Be careful before answering because right now am looking at a declassified 1960 CIA study paper on the Sino-Soviet relationship that mentions the flaws and results of the 'communes' Mao demanded in China.
Check that out. Mao is saying that everyone in China should work for free. Wonder what happened to that scheme. Who among the Chinese members here would work for free?
So Mao exaggerated the success of the commune experiment and the Great Leap Forward to the Soviets who already knew about the flaws of the entire program. What are the odds that the Soviets knew exactly what was going to happen and what did happened?