In his unremarkable 22-year life, which ended ingloriously in 1962 when a PLA comrade accidentally backed a truck into a power pole that fell and crushed him, Lei Feng wanted to be nothing more than a selfless "revolutionary screw that never rusts."
The Fengster, a man celebrated as a revolutionary icon of Maoist China for his selfless devotion to the pe…
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