Famine in example sentence
The place would explode if the truth came out about what actually happened in villages during land reform and the various stages of collectivization during and after the revolution; or about who persecuted whom during the "anti-rightist campaign" in 1957; or about how many millions died during the great famine induced by the disastrous policies of the "great leap forward" a few years later; or who denounced whom in the universities and residence committees during the "cultural revolution" of the late sixties.