Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
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If your goal is to have a famine, of course, that's not so easy to arrange, right, is it?
Particularly at a day and age where we did not yet have the insect laboratories where they breed various forms of genetically modified insects that could do all sorts of evil stuff.
That wasn't yet happening.
But also it's unlikely that it would be swarms and swarms of locusts, millions of locusts eating the harvest because in China there was a natural enemy of the giant grasshoppers, the locusts, namely the ordinary Asian tree sparrow.
Yes.
And in fact, in China, it's estimated there's around 700 million of them, the tree sparrows.
And they would, you know, in the development of the locusts, you know, they intervene at the right point and they eat them and the larvae and so on.
So you really, if you wanted to have swarms of locusts, you would need of, I mean, nobody would think this up surely, but you would need a very specific policy that would declare the ordinary Asian tree sparrow enemy number one that has to be killed and exterminated.
And of course, that's what Mao did.
And what happened was swarms of locusts destroyed quite a bit of the harvest.
That's increasingly being studied, and it's quite clear that such a specific policy in this chain, in this natural biological cycle where you intervene and destroy the enemy of the low-castes as a specific policy, that surely can't be by accident.
Now, still it wasn't quite enough, 480 million famine, so now you need the usual Soviet-style policies, which is to...
sequester the harvest you know the government moves in and seizes the harvest and it's taken from the people and it's not being sold or some of it is exported abroad to Romania exactly and then some farmers have some storage because actually farmers always think of next year's crop
Do you want to keep some to plant next year?
That's before genetically modified, you know, things were invented to destroy that natural cycle of farmer's behavior.
So they went after those farmers.
Anyone who stored food was declared a bourgeois hoarder.
and an enemy of the people and was severely punished and of course the food and the grain and all the storage was taken away.
So put all this together and of course on top of that various communist campaigns, the famine took place and it was such a horrible disaster.
And as I said, we're around 80 million as an estimate of people who starved.
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