Y'all need to check out the book Tombstone Yang Jisheng

Warning: This book is depressing as fuck even though the reports and articles are told in a matter-of-fact style.

He documents so much fucked up shit that happened to the Chinese people during the Great Leap Forward. By 1960, it was not uncommon in the country-side for people to eat other people due to the incredibly massive starvation that happened and was covered up by the local leaders (and ignored by Mao when it was finally reported).

Dead bodies lined the streets so much in many towns that they had to use bulldozers to bury them all on the side of the street.

Little kids would prostitute themselves for food (and were later jailed for it).

So many parents died it was not even funny. So many children got fucked.