China: A 'counter revolutionary' awaits execution during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961). During this period it is estimated that at least million people were beaten or tortured to death while 1 to 3 million committed suicide. The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through rapid industrialisation.

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