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Against a background of modern industrial plants with smokestacks, Mao Zedong
holds blueprints for the future in this 1953 poster, which reads, “Chairman Mao
leads us to build a great country.” These popular posters, painted in the style of
“revolutionary romanticism,” communicated state goals and policies to the general
populace, always portraying the Communist Party and Chairman Mao in the most
positive light possible. Hoover Political Poster Collection, CC 202