sentence1: Becker, Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post , describes in gory detail how Mao Tse-tung's industrialization program, the Great Leap Forward of 1958, created a devastating famine--30 million dead, more than the combined tolls of Hitler and Stalin.
sentence2: According to Becker, Mao Tse-tung has created a terrible famine and this is one of the reasons why he was a bad governor.