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[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 5 points 19 hours ago

First of all, I'll take the honour of using .world's favourite word: whataboutism much?

Second of all, wow, there was a hunger episode as a consequence of bad ecological policy on a preindustrial society?!

BTW, life expectancy in China at the beginning of the socialist revolution was 35 years, by the time Mao died it was above 55. Those are hundreds of millions of lives saved.