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Program The '''Great Leap Forward''' was a program instituted by Chinese dictator [[Mao Zedong]] from 1958 to 1961 to nationalize industry and agriculture. This included collectivizing farmland and peasants being forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces to raise China's steel output, as well as an absurd campaign to exterminate pests, which unbalanced the ecosystem. The whole ill-conceived venture resulted in widespread famine, economic disaster and what modern Chinese history refers to as '''Three Years of Disasters'''. The [[Communist]] inspired [[democide]] resulted in the deaths of approximately 30 million people.