In the end, the Great Leap Forward was...

The Great Leap Forward was a colossal failure on the part of the Chinese Communist Regime.

Explanation:

Mao Zedong's scheme of the Great Leap forward relied on the labor on common land and ablution of private property in China.

The workers were to make the country into an industrial powerhouse to bring general prosperity in the nation.

However, the policies of indiscriminate industrial work without any centralized industry in place meant that the produce was of third rate, the people were often overworked and the famine that came due to less focus on agrarian setup was devastating.

More than 10 million people lost their life in the famine that was a result of the Great Leap Forward.

The Great Leap forward was a five-year plan of agricultural cultivation and rural industrialization of Chinese communist party.

Explanation:

The Great Leap forward resulted in more deaths due to starvation, execution, and forced labor with massive economic and environmental destruction.

It created a mass killing in human history and it is an example of failures of socialism and economic central planning. The agricultural policies failure, the movement of farmers from agricultural to industrial work, and weather conditions leads to millions of death from severe famine.

Thus, the Great Leap forward was a great failure and it was halted in 1951 after the death and destruction.

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