May 24, 2018
In the early 1958, Mao Zedong proclaimed the “Great Leap Forward” as a follow up of how successful his five year plan was. By the end of 1958, many fifteen thousand acres of land became around twenty-six thousand collective farms (communes). In each communes contained over twenty-five thousand people peasants. The area was so compacted there was no privacy. Peasants ate, slept, and worked in farms all together. This plan was a major fail,with it leading to a great famine (no food for everybody), and it finally ended in 1961.