Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

[Alram]

To read too many books is harmful.

~Mao

Mao always refused to brush his teeth.

Millions of sparrows, maybe hundreds of millions, were killed in China as a direct result of Mao's edict. Thus the Chinese had to try to take a great leap forward since they could no longer fly forwards.