True believer. As the cultural Revolution deepened, Red Guards fanned out around the country, to hunt down 'reactionaries' and to share their 'revolutionnary experiences'. This soldier in the People's Liberation Army became famous for his revolutionnary passion and vigor. Photographed on 16 April, 1968, he clasps the little Red Book of Mao's sayings, and points proudly to the Mao buttons and badges given to him by peasant audiences around China moved by his revolutionnary zeal. Photo by Li Zhensheng.

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