“At Hongguang Commune, a roadside area of more than 2,000 mu was cleared of more than 180 dwellings. At least 12,000 homes were dismantled throughout the county. Unrelated families were obliged to share quarters, sometimes with domestic fowl. Cadres burst into homes without notice, tossed out belongings, and reduced a house to rubble in an instant. Commune members returning from deployment elsewhere wept upon finding their homes, wives, and children gone. Some families relocated seven times in a year. Cadres ransacked homes, often snatching desirable goods. Some commune members retaliated by hiding snakes in their rice jars.” ChinaSocialismCommunismMarxismMao ZedongMaoismLeninismGreat FamineRed China Book:Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Source: Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962