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Remembering Chairman Mao
On September 9th 1976 the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong died. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s and he spent decades living in Communist China. He spoke to Rebecca Kesby about of one of the world's great revolutionaries.
Photo: a poster of Chairman Mao in Beijing in the 1960s. Credit: AFP.
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On September 9th 1976 the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong died. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s and he spent decades living in Communist China. He spoke to Rebecca Kesby about of one of the world's great revolutionaries.
Photo: a poster of Chairman Mao in Beijing in the 1960s. Credit: AFP.
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