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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.
Yangtze River Floods, China (1931) To top the list of worst natural disasters of all time, you canât just wreak havoc in one fell swoop. Youâve gotta stick around for a while. And the Yangtze River floods did just that, starting with torrential rains in April 1931 and continuing into JULY.