A reminder of the unparalleled advances in public health made by communist states. Even if every absurd fabrication that the anti-communist propagandists like to parrot about the millions supposedly killed by Stalin, Mao, etc. was true, those numbers would pale in comparison to the number of lives they saved, the hundreds of millions of life spans extended by entire decades. And if you want the perfect control sample of what it looks like when you start with nearly identical conditions but don’t have communist central planning, look at India.
This stat tells me next to nothing without comparing it to the rest of the world
Overall, despite China’s set back in the Great Leap Forward, it recovered and surpassed the average world life expectancy in 1970, let alone its similar neighbor India, 5 whole years before even a plan of Reform and Opening
You can also see how COVID was handled by China in that graph
Wish it expanded more