We can not find exceptions to this rule , no matter where we look : the recent famines of ethiopia or other dictatorial regimes: famines in the soviet union in the 1930s; china's 1958-61 famine with the failure of the great leap forward ; or earlier still, the famines in lreland or India , still managed to have a famine , indeed the largest recorded famine in word history : nearly 30million people died in the famine of 1958-61 , while faulty governmental policies remained uncorrected for three full years.