0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satsonvats 15 Apr freebie \ on: 1958: Mao ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain history
Killing sparrows is symbolic of the top-down vs. bottoms-up approach to organization. The Great Chinese Famine happened immediately after, though that had to do with killing sparrows and forcing people to build pig iron and just realms of bad economic thought.