Charge the enemy to the last breath

生命不息,冲锋不止
Shengming bu xi, chongfeng bu zhi
Charge the enemy to the last breath
1970
Foreign Languages Press (外文出版社), Beijing
53.5x77 cm.
BG E15/92

A wounded soldier charges forward, holding his gun. Behind him a medic is shouting. The image is based on the story of Chen Shaoguang (陈绍光, 1943-1969), who was killed by Russian gunfire during a similar charge on Zhenbao Island (珍宝岛) on 30 March 1969. Chen was posthumously declared a Combat Hero, a memorial park was built in his honor and his birthplace was renamed to Shaoguang Village.

In the right margin is a text in Chinese and English:
This poster depicts a heroic fighter who, having been seriously wounded in the head in battle against the aggressors, brushes aside medical assistance and, gun in hand, charges the enemy in defence of Chairman Mao and the motherland. The burning hatred in his eyes and his forceful motion as he dashes towards the invaders fully express the heroic resolve of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to vanquish all enemies and its thoroughgoing revolutionary spirit of “fearing neither hardship nor death”.

This is the export version of a similar poster published for the domestic market.
Artists He Kongde and Yan Jian are not mentioned in the impressum.

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