Evidently, these ideologies remained enduring features of Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. ... Eventually, the entire countryside was organized into these communes and their aim was to develop a true communist system, but Mao's principal goal was to match the Soviet Union and capitalist West in industrial output (Teacher source #3, Author unknown). ... Corroborating with this analysis, a mass famine did set in and an estimated 40 million people died from starvation. ... Whole villages starved to death In the Xixian county alone, 639 villages were deserted and 200, 0...

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