| Nationalities portrayed include a Vietnamese woman carrying a gun
and an Albanian man armed with an axe. "The People" is used here in
the political sense and implies the existence of "non-people" such as
imperialists, counter-revolutionaries and other "bad elements," who
were seldom portrayed after the non-State violence of the early Cultural
Revolution was forcibly curtailed in 1969. Even after they disappeared
from direct sight, these "bad elements" remained a threat and allusions
to them were constantly made. |
