Every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which… — Dai Sijie
Every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic, fine-meshed net over the whole of China.
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