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12th November 1944: Chinese communist guerrilla leader Mao Tse-Tung, the future President of communist China and chairman of the Communist Party, addressing a meeting. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

12th November 1944:  Chinese communist guerrilla leader Mao Tse-Tung, the future President of communist China and chairman of the Communist Party, addressing a meeting.  (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Mao Tse-tung the Chinese Comminist leader and the first Chairman of the people's Republic (left), Joseph Stalin Soviet revolutionary and leader (right) and Soviet politician Nikolai Bulganin (centre), picture taken in Moscow in the early 1950s (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

A portrait of Mao Tse-tung the Chinese Comminist leader and the first Chairman of the people's Republic (left), Joseph Stalin Soviet revolutionary and leader (right) and Soviet politician Nikolai Bulganin (centre), picture taken in Moscow in the early 1950s  (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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UNSPECIFIED : Mao Zedong (1893-1976) leader of chinese communist party president of Popular China 1949-1959 and 1968-1976, here c.1949 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED :  Mao Zedong (1893-1976) leader of chinese communist party president of Popular China 1949-1959 and 1968-1976, here c.1949  (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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A retouched picture released by Chinese official news agency of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976, delivering a speech "about correctly handling contradiction among the people" at the standing committee of the State Council in Beijing in 1957. CHINA OUT / AFP / XINHUA (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

A retouched picture released by Chinese official news agency of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976, delivering a speech "about correctly handling contradiction among the people" at the standing committee of the State Council in Beijing in 1957.   CHINA OUT / AFP / XINHUA        (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

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UNSPECIFIED : Mao Tse Toung (1893-1976) chinese president here during review of army of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Pekin, november 3, 1967 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED :  Mao Tse Toung (1893-1976) chinese president here during review of army of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Pekin, november 3, 1967  (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)