We’re talking about landlords who were so abusive that the instant their tenants were free they each individually chose to murder them. Like it wasn’t a coordinated terror attack, it was millions of people all choosing to take extreme violence for likely the same reason.
Literally all the land reforms said was “release your slaves” so it’s not on anyone but the landlords for what happened next.
If you genuinely think that Mao’s land reforms resulted in too many deaths instead of not enough, I don’t know what to tell you.
Your problem is that only tens of millions of people died? Wtf?
We’re talking about landlords who were so abusive that the instant their tenants were free they each individually chose to murder them. Like it wasn’t a coordinated terror attack, it was millions of people all choosing to take extreme violence for likely the same reason.
Literally all the land reforms said was “release your slaves” so it’s not on anyone but the landlords for what happened next.
We’re talking about the tens of millions of peasants who starved to death because Mao didn’t understand agriculture or mechanization.
Let’s literally kill all the bad people because that’s a great solution for everything!
And of course if I alone get to decide who the bad people are, it will be completely fair.