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“The national mobilization to exterminate the "Four Pests"... was the first of a series of disasters precipitated by the Great Helmsman after the Anti-Rightist Campaign. "National mobilisation" meant that all 500 million people in China stopped work in order to take up a single specific task — in this case, the extermination of sparrows, flies, mosquitoes, and rats.”

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Book:The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao
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The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao

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