Interview with Zeng Zhaokang

Zeng Shaokang said that the iron furnace built during the great leap movement fialed in a few months. Trees in the villages were all cut off to burn the furnace. The famine started in the second half of 1958, there was only three-jin rice each meal for the whole village at the canteen. He said that all this was because of Mao. In those years, people were critcized at class struggle meetings for their wrong words, so he is careful even today not to record anything bad against the communist party.

曾昭康说钢铁没炼成功，几个月后就垮台了，可是为了烧炉子几百年的大树都砍光了。58年下半年饥荒开始，全队一餐只有三斤米下锅。他说这是受了毛泽东的苦。那时人们说错一点话就会被开会斗争，知道今天他仍然不愿录下对共产党不利的言语。

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