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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5317848" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The communists were no saviors.  Saw a video the other day about decisions they made that had a huge impact.  Was determined that sparrows ate a small amount of wheat annually and when added up it amounted to something the government found unacceptable.  So it was ordered that all sparrows must die.  They almost went extinct in China.  Turned out the sparrows were the chief controllers of pests, especially locusts, who ate a lot more wheat and other crops than the sparrows ever did.  Resulted in plagues of locusts that decimated crops and caused famines that killed millions.  The communists were making very little headway economically until they relented to allow capitalism.  That and the West moving so much manufacturing there made all the difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>