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Turning eastward, the discussion highlights China’s deadly experience under Mao Zedong. During the Great Leap Forward, an ill-fated economic and social campaign, estimates of deaths reach as high as 100 million—though some argue the figure could be lower. Regardless, it's beyond the realm of precise tally, emphasizing the immense human cost of revolutionary ideology taken to its extreme. Mao’s rule, much like Stalin’s in the USSR, was marked by brutal purges, mass starvation, and societal upheaval, exposing the catastrophic failures of communist doctrine when applied without restraint.