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Great Leap Forward - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Success of earlier co-operatives → confidence in full collectivization
      - Industrial production rose 18.3% in First Five-Year Plan.
      - Early Cold War victories; Sputnik → “The East wind is prevailing over the West wind.”
    - - 1957: Launch of Sputnik (USSR success) inspired China
      - China needed to match USSR in achievements + overtake Britian in 15 years
- - - - Personally attacked accused Peng of forming a “right opportunist clique.”
      - Denounced for “colluding with a foreign country” (USSR visit).
      - Stripped of ministerial post & barred from Politburo.