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Mao: The Unknown StoryAs the year-end deadline approached for his steel output goal, every time Mao saw his managers he would use his fingers to count the days left, and urge them: БЂњWe must make it!БЂ«By 31 December, the 10.7 million tons figure was reached, but as Mao acknowledged to his top echelon, БЂњonly 40 percent is good steelБЂ«; and more than 3 million tons were completely useless. The БЂњgoodБЂ«steel had been produced by proper steel mills; the useless stuff from the backyard furnaces, almost all of which were soon abandoned. The whole venture, a gigantic waste of resources and manpower, triggered further losses: in one place, local bosses hijacked shipments of high-quality Russian alloys and had them melted down so that they could claim a bumper output, called an БЂњIron and Steel Sputnik.БЂ«БЂњNo good at constructing, but super-good at destructionБЂ«: never was MaoБЂ™s own assessment of himself more accurate. MAO WASTED MUCH of the technology and equipment bought from Russia, along with the skills of the accompanying specialists ...» |
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