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sources on the opium eradication during Mao's rule. (lemmygrad.ml)
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Dear comrades,

I remember reading that after the Liberation of China by the communist party, the main cities had a problem with dead bodies in the streets due to opium overdoses. That every morning they had to clean an enormous amount of dead bodies.

However I can't find anything on it anymore. Can someone help a comrade out?

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[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Something something 20% of Shanghai's population were drug addicts, and every night, people who died from the structural violence of war (war-caused virus, wounds, etc) were swept away in the tons by cleaners...

Yeah, I remember that!