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Hungry Ghosts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Of the many mass brutalities visited on their people by totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the famine of 1958- 1961 that claimed more than thirty thousand lives in China cannot be matched for either the deliberate cruelty of the Marxist dogmatists responsible or for the degradation suffered by the victims who ate grass, bark, and even other starving humans. Becker has read many books, examined important documents, and interviewed numerous survivors, and using this information he has written a frank account of atrocities that were concealed for twenty years.

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