🐦Sparrow Massacre 🦗 1958

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In the year 1958, #Mao Zedong Chairman of Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign “Great Leap forward” . In which one of the first actions taken - the Four Pests campaign. The campaign drive was to eliminate four pests, viz. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows.

Also known as “Smash Sparrow”, this campaign was the worst ecological disaster known to mankind. Mao felt that sparrows ate too much grain and China could do without such pests. Thus, he decreed that all sparrows be killed.

Sparrow nests were destroyed, 🥚eggs were broken, and chicks were killed. Millions of people organized into groups, and hit noisy pots and pans to prevent sparrows from resting in their nests, with the goal of causing them to drop dead from exhaustion. citizens also simply shot the birds down from the sky.

There is no official estimate as to how many sparrows were killed as a part of this campaign, but since the “People’s Republic” mobilized people of the country to eradicate birds, we can easily estimate that even if everyone person killed at least one sparrow each, more than 600 million sparrows would have been killed, making it an extinct bird in China

But within a year, China realized that sparrows ate not only grain but also pests, for example, they ate 🦗locusts. Chinese agriculture was hit badly with an exponential rise in 🐛insect infestations, including locust attacks. There were no sparrows left to predate them.

A famine naturally followed and people simply ran out of 🍜food. Even according to the conservative official estimates, 15 million people ☠️died, while some scholars peg the number of actual fatalities as high as 45 or even 78 million.
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Lesson: Never kill birds that predicate locusts

kamryinrakestraw
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birds, creatures, ... all..our friends... save them

sarladedhia
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Great Work Mayur..Wish you best wishes !!

rajivgada
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Very very nice animation बहोत अच्छा संदेश, ...

sarladedhia
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Lesson: nothing is born without purpose 😢❤

Shortsanimals-vj
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Great to see uch untold stories being told, yes the message in this film is very critical, can't mess with nature🌿🍃

soulchakra
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Never see this wonderfulness, Chinu Meenu! 🤔🤔😯😯😊😊

No... Why they killed all the sparrows ? You can't do that ? 😯😯😔😔😥😥

10:50: So they didn't had any rice... Because of the loss of the sparrows... 😯😯😔😔😥😥

Chinu Meenu, this animation let me thought that all these environmental problems started with Mao Zedong's Four Pest Campaign, isn't it ? 😯😯😔😔😥😥

10:56: My favorite part of this sad story... 😯😯😔😔😥😥

hatsunemikuchannel
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This is very tragic emotional backstory. 😭

Sporraky
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no killing sparrows no killing sparrows no killing sparrows save all the sparrows

CjhamilDeplomo
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why didn't someone tell Mao that killing the sparrows was a bad idea

janetjenkins
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MissOreo (lesson: don’t EVER kill birds or lock ur windows tonight i will treat you like the same as the birds)

MiawyChan
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That 1 sparrow the flew to india caused the the famine in china

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Can you remove the COVID references in New Year 2023 animation

Kyoton-
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This was amazing and very sad to see how our leaders can lead us astray when they have absolute power

germ
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So is this the reason many people in China started eating all kinds of animals/insects etc as back then they had no other options 😟

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