Pests Campaign facts
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One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow eating grain. Thinking they were hurting China's grain supply, he launched the Four Pests Campaign and killed every sparrow he could find. Unfortunately, they mainly eat insects, not grain. The locust population exploded and 43 million people starved to death.
Chairman Mao declared South Asian tigers as “enemies of the people”; as a result several “anti-pest” campaigns were launched that brought these animals to the brink of extinction
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During the Four Pests Campaign in China, a large flock of sparrows found political asylum in the Polish embassy, and the ambassador attempted to protect the sparrows by denying entry to the Chinese
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Mao Zedong instituted a 'Four pests Campaign' to wipe out mosquitoes, flies, rats and sparrows which led to famine and the deaths of forty-five million people
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"The Four Pests Campaign" (aka the Kill a Sparrow Campaign) at the beginning of Mao Zedong's "The Great Leap Forward" was an effort to exterminate mosquitoes, flies, rats, and sparrows. Without sparrows, locusts overpopulation created a famine killing 20-45 million people
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Mao Zedong's Four Pests Campaign in China, which revolved around the eradication of rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows. Killing sparrows became a national past time. This lead to Mao's Great Famine sincethe crops became infested with locusts.
