The Great Leap Forward was introduced in the year 1958. The idea
behind it was a new agriculturally based social economic plan where Mao stated
the idea that“Happy plants grow together.” However by having the people of China
try and grow incompatible plants together, he unknowingly initiated the start of
a major famine that would lead to the death of 20-43 million people. This was
all in an attempt to create a communist utopia for the people of China. Those
that showed opposition were either put into jail to rot or just flat out murdered.