Mao like Pol Pot

So, what would happen if Mao Zedong after he gained power in mainland China decided to carry out such a "social experiment" like Pol Pot later in Cambodia?
 
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Given how they were supposed to transform Chinese society, the “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cutural Revolution” were “social experiments.”
As far as what happened? Look at the body count.
 
If we accept the figures of Marek Sliwinski, Pol Pot killed about two million people, and thus a little more than a quarter of his countrymen.

If we assume that there were five hundred million people living in China in 1949, the death toll from a "social experiment" of the type perpetrated by Pol Pot would have been one hundred and twenty-five million.

This can be compared to the fifty million deaths that, according to Frank Dikötter, resulted from the famine caused by the "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1962.
 
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