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Daily LIFT #1188


The Chinese People Have Stood Up!, papercut and poem, Foshan People's Commune, People's Republic of China 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1188


Celebration

Sunshine

Inauguration

Of the Peoples Republic

October 1st 1949


A few months previously

Mao had written

That there could be

No complacency about victory


Make trouble fail

Make trouble again fail again

That is the logic of the imperialists

Of all reactionaries the world over

In dealing with the cause of the people.


They will never go against this logic.


When we say imperialism is ferocious

We mean that its nature will never change

The imperialists will never lay down

Their butcher knives

They will never become Buddhas


Until their doom.


Celebration

Sunshine

People gathering

At Tien An Men Square in Peking

October 1st 1949


There in the square

The crimson dawn unfurled

Mao issued a message to the entire world

His first words

His first words

Met by a huge approving roar

His first words

Said it all

Met by a huge approving roar

After long night

Of suffering and war

His first words

His first words

As people sip the tea of freedom

From victory cup

His first words said it all


THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE STOOD UP!

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