1959-61+Newspapers+don't+report+famine

How did this agricultural policy affect **those who might be ignorant of the 'bad' that was brought about by CCP rule?

This policy affected the peasants in a bad way. The Great Leap Forward caused peasants to abandon their crops and melt down all of their tools, just to meet their steel goals. The Power that Mao had over his people was so great that they were willing to stop their agricultural progress to meet their targets. The unsuspecting peasants began to starve "it seemed as if everyone over 50 dissapeared" and soon the people over fifty as well as young men, women, and children began to die. This affected those who were ignorant of the bad in a terrible way, it caused them to starve to death by the millions.**

//You miss the logic of why some peasants, not already affected by the famine, end up experiencing it anyway, when it could have been avoided. Consider WHO reads newspapers in a society like China's and what role they might have played had they been aware of the famine in some parts of the country.//