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Crowds line up to view the embalmed body of late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 9, 2016, the 40th anniversary of his death. Throngs of pilgrims lined up at Mao's mausoleum to pay tribute on the 40th anniversary of his death, but official commemorations were notably absent for the founder of Communist China. / AFP / GREG BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

Crowds line up to view the embalmed body of late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 9, 2016, the 40th anniversary of his death. 
Throngs of pilgrims lined up at Mao's mausoleum to pay tribute on the 40th anniversary of his death, but official commemorations were notably absent for the founder of Communist China. / AFP / GREG BAKER        (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)