That was the wrong animal my dude.

The Four Evils campaign argeted four “pests” for elimination: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. 

With the sparrow population devastated, locust populations soared uncontrollably, leading to devastating crop losses.

The death toll from starvation during this period reached a staggering 20 to 30 million people, underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the “Four Pests” campaign.

Also the propaganda in this campaing was “Eradicate pests and diseases and build happiness for ten thousand generations”