This excellent revolutionary film tells the story of Ayguli, the female team leader of the Kazakh ethnic group in 1959, depicting scenes of ethnic minority masses in Xinjiang bravely advancing under the leadership of our Party and Chairman Mao, along the three red banners (the general line of socialist construction, the people’s commune, the Great Leap Forward).
Chairman Mao taught us: “Socialist society is a relatively long historical stage. During this stage, class, class contradictions, and class struggle still exist, as well as the struggle between socialism and capitalism, and the danger of capitalist restoration.”[1]
The class enemy Hasimu, unwilling to fail, plots to usurp the leadership of the production team and restore capitalism. To this end, he collaborates with Shadike to incite backward masses and blow the wind of capitalism; when a snowstorm arrives, they sabotage livestock production. Under the leadership of our Party, Ayguli and other cadres rely on the masses to carry out firm struggles against them…
Speech at the expanded central work conference by Chairman Mao, January 30, 1962. ↩︎