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Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
The great Irish famine occured as a result of intoxication of the countryâs most fundamental food source, which was potato, in 1845. As a result of the famine, 1 million people died and around 2 million people migrated to America. Catholic Ireland was suffering from the merciless exploitation of England.