Talk+About+The+Bitter+Past+Campaign

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The "Talk about the bitter past campaign" was definitely a means by which **Mao attempted to control the Chinese people through ignorance.** His idea was to attempt to get peoples minds off of the terrible famine caused by the Great Leap Forward (1958-60). The strategy consisted of finding people who were around before the CCP and having them portray the time under the warlords and the Kuomintang as worse. Unfortunately for Mao, the strategy backfired, and the people whom he wanted to portray the famine at hand as nothing spent the whole time doing the opposite.