How It Works Out

Althouse restates the obvious:

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“State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond…”

“… parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.”"