Did you know that the largest engineering failure wasn’t Russia’s Chernobyl, it was Russia and China’s 1975 Banqiao Dam failure?

Likely over 200,000 killed by Mao Zedong’s rush to invigorate China’s economy. Whistleblower ignored.

The accident was suppressed for two decades.

#BadEngineering
#Disasters
#ChairmanMao
#Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Did you know that the largest engineering failure wasn’t Russia’s Chernobyl, it was Russia and China’s 1975 Banqiao Dam failure?

Likely over 200,000 killed by Mao Zedong’s rush to invigorate China’s economy. Whistleblower ignored.

#BadEngineering
#Disasters
#ChairmanMao
#Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Did you know that the largest engineering failure wasn’t Russia’s Chernobyl, it was Russia and China’s 1975 Banqiao Dam failure.

Likely over 200,000 killed by Mao Zedong’s rush to invigorate China’s economy. Whistleblower ignored.

#BadEngineering
#Disasters
#ChairmanMao
#Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Interested in two veteran #PRC-based journalists discussing the mass psychosis of the #CulturalRevolution and how it's still reverberating across generations?

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Why China’s Cultural Revolution Still Matters with Tania Branigan | Intelligence Squared 49min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmdCgh5pdI

#CCP #china #dictatorship #chairmanmao #xijinping #pooh #history #whitewashing #bookreview #RedMemory

“If you are afraid of chilis in your bowl,” [Mao] once hectored his doctor, “how will you dare to attack your enemies?”

From

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57024533

#foodhistory #chinesehistory #chairmanmao

“If you are afraid of chilis in your bowl,” [Mao] once hectored his doctor, “how will you dare to attack your enemies?”

From

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57024533

#foodhistory #chinesehistory #chairmanmao