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It was strange that Mao, age 73 at the time, decided to swim the Yangtze in the summer of 1966.

Though his sudden death broke the heart of the nation at the time, the unceremonious and somewhat comical demise of the defied father of the Chinese Communist Party must of certainly played a part in prompting the anti-CCP political uphevals that took place immediately after, right?
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