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In Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts, he makes the claim that broken glass was used as a "fertilizer" during the Great Leap Forward. Is this accepted as true in academia? What were the circumstances and impacts of this practice and how widespread was it?

by /u/Buffalo__Buffalo in /r/AskHistorians

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