Long live the great leader Chairman Mao! Long live! Long long live!

伟大的领袖毛主席万岁!万岁!万万岁!
Weidade lingxiu Mao Zhuxi wansui! Wansui! Wanwansui!
Long live the great leader Chairman Mao! Long live! Long long live!
1972, April
Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社), Beijing
54x38 cm.
BG D87/17

The subtitle: Chairman Mao in the countryside of Henan, August 1958 (一九五八年八月, 毛主席在河南农村).
This iconic and often reprinted picture shows a happy Mao in a plentiful grain field at the start of the Great Leap Forward, which would cause crop failures and millions of deaths from starvation.

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