| Teenagers engage in militia training. Their deadly serious expressions
denote that this is not play, the enemy is real. During the mid-1970s,
as Mao grew old, there was a bitter power struggle going on between
factions in the top levels of the Party. Radicals led by the Gang of
Four called for unceasing vigilance against the reappearance of counter-revolutionaries
in the guise of revolutionaries. The mass "Anti-Lin Biao Anti-Confucius"
campaign of 1973-74 was supposedly aimed at Zhou Enlai and others hiding
beneath his wing and plotting to subvert the revolution. |
