(FILES) Leaders of the Communist parties wave to the crowd, receiving a wild ovation, on October 1, 1959 on the grandstand of the square of Tien-An-Men, in Beijing where guests from eighty-seven countries attend the ceremony. From L to R: German Hermann Mattern, Teng Tse-hui, Romanian Vice President of the Council of Ministers Emil Bodnaras, Bulgarian chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Dimitar Ganev, Polish chairman of the Council of State of the People's Republic of Poland Aleksander Zawadzki, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Lin Biao, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Il-sung, first Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Suslov, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman of the People's Republic of China Liu Shaoqi, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Antonin Novotny, first Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China Zhu De, Mongolian Chairman of the Council of Ministers Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, 2nd Vice Chairperson of the People's Republic of China Soong Ching-ling, 3rd Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary Istvan Dobi, 2nd Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China Dong Biwu, Prime Minister of Albania Mehmet Shehu.. The Great Helmsman, who died September 9, 1976, is still very much a fixture in central Henan province's Nanjie -- often dubbed "China's last Maoist village". Nostalgia for Mao's egalitarian ideals is growing in China as memories of his turbulent rule fade. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)