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Mao Zedong's policies led to millions of deaths.

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Is it true that Mao Zedong's policies led to millions of deaths?

Yes. Multiple reference works state that Mao Zedong's policies, especially the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, caused the deaths of many millions of Chinese people, with figures ranging from 15 million to 60 million.

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Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
2005
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Shelton, D. (2005). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=OoclAQAAMAAJ&dq=Mao+Zedong%27s+policies+led+to+millions+of+deaths.&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api

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Simple English Wikipedia: Mao Zedong
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Simple English Wikipedia: Mao Zedong. (n.d.). simple.wikipedia.org. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia
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Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

history-year-by-year
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history-year-by-year. (n.d.). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/history-year-by-year

The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
2001
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Krieger, J. & Crahan, M. E. (2001). The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=2wd30pXJxpYC&dq=Mao+Zedong%27s+policies+led+to+millions+of+deaths.&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api

Mao Zedong and the Famine of 1959–1960: A Study in Wilfulness
2006
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Bernstein, T. P. (2006). Mao Zedong and the Famine of 1959–1960: A Study in Wilfulness. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741006000221

Continuities and Breaks in Chinese Socialism: Contrasting Mao and Xi
2022
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Villa, A. M. A. (2022). Continuities and Breaks in Chinese Socialism: Contrasting Mao and Xi. zenodo.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13124337

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