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by EastToWest 1853 days ago
And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.

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What? "Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s." This is your own words!
Are you aware that there has been more than one famine in history?
I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow?

"Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn't it?