>>285854they go into detail that mao had hard-on for dams, so most the dams in china r from 50s, 60s. so like peasants were mobilised to set up steel foundries everywhere, to try to make steel w/ willpower, they were also mobilised to build those dams. the whole ppl came together
i don't normally watch that utube channel (like, i don't enjoy hearing negative stuff about china or any other country, it doesn't bring me some weird form of satisfaction) but the collection of videos and background detail for this flood was pretty good, so made this thread