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China. Armband of the Headquarters of the Shanghai Rebel Workers, better known as the Red Guards.
In general, the Cultural Revolution was led by Mao Zedong, but in Shanghai it took on a character of its own, leading to the proclamation of the Shanghai People’s Commune, taking the Paris Commune of 1871 as a model, a fact that did not please Mao, who saw that he could lose power in this region by going too far, so it was abolished and renamed the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee.
In 1978, with Deng Xiaoping in power, many artistic works from the Cultural Revolution period were destroyed to end the Cultural Revolution period. It is difficult to find original works from that period.
