thousands of Communist Party cadres, workers, peasants and other soldiers who had gathered for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong.
Mao's attempt to purge Chinese society of supposed bourgeois elements and escalate his own cult of personality.
a 5-year-old kindergartner was performing the "loyalty dance,"
In front of the soldiers in the stadium stands, she skipped in place and sang:
No matter how close our parents are to us, they are
not as close as our relationship with Mao
clipped from: www.smithsonianmag.com 
