In December 1958, the Polish embassy in Beijing refused to allow sparrow killers to enter their territory, so the Chinese surrounded it with drums and continued to beat the drums non-stop for two days until all the birds that rowed in the garden fell and diplomats collected the carcasses with shovels. The Maoists killed 2 billion sparrows. Later, their population was restored by importing sparrows from the Soviet Union - according to some sources, 25 million birds were brought, according to others - more than 100 million. (another example of the "wisdom of the ancestors").

In December 1958, the Polish embassy in Beijing refused to allow sparrow killers to enter their territory, so the Chinese surrounded it with drums and continued to beat the drums non-stop for two days until all the birds that rowed in the garden fell and diplomats collected the carcasses with shovels. The Maoists killed 2 billion sparrows. Later, their population was restored by importing sparrows from the Soviet Union - according to some sources, 25 million birds were brought, according to others - more than 100 million. (another example of the "wisdom of the ancestors").