We showed a video in class which what actually happened in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolustion. For more information students should check out articles about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
The videos are very special since they show actual movies of what happened during these times and since almost no one outside or inside China have seen these movies. Of course many people in China lived in those times. But what they tell us just become stories. I wanted you students to see for yourselves what actually happened.
One lesson that I want you to learn is that the official statistics of all governments should be questioned. In Mainland China, the exaggeration and flat-out lies about the statistics are amply illustrated by these videos. Communism, in China or elsewhere has not been efficient economically. To make communism seem to be efficient economically, many communist governments have exaggerated or false official statistics. The Chinese Communist Government is no exception.
To make efficient business decisions, you must have lots of reliable information. In China, getting reliable information is especially difficult, since official statistics are highly unreliable.
On the next test, there will be two questions about what the videos showed about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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