The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

July 19th, 1966 – Mao Zedong’s Historic Swim

Mao swimming in the Yangtze in Wuhan

Poster commemorating Mao on his swim

July 1968 – Dispersing of the Red Guards

A poster expressing criticism towards the Red Guards

The once proud Red Guard is now no more

December 1968 – Down to the Countryside

Worker-Peasant-Soldiers being deployed out to the countryside

Propaganda poster encouraging youth to labor in the countryside

January 1972 – “Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius”

Poster criticizing Lin’s ideals

Children preform hard labor in criticism of Lin

September 9th, 1976 – Mao Zedong: Man, Not God

Tiananmen square, where only Mao’s portrait hangs now

Mao’s burial casket, in the mausoleum.

September 9th, 1976 – Mao Zedong: Man, Not God

Tiananmen square, where only Mao’s portrait hangs now

Mao’s burial casket, in the mausoleum.