Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world, and a third could be lost. If it is a little higher it could be half ... I say that if the worst came to the worst and one-half dies, there will still be one-half left, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. After a few years there would be 2.7 billion people again.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world, and a third could be lost. If it is a little higher it could be half ... I say that if the worst came to the worst and one-half dies, there will still be one-half left, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. After a few years there would be 2.7 billion people again." in the context of "Mao Zedong (d. 1976), in Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62 (Walker & Co., 2010), p. 13" to mean that wisdom is timeless.