By government decree every member of the commune is entitled to a private lot

Cartoon shows Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong standing behind a microphone under a flag showing the hammer and sickle, reading a proclamation to a crowd of beaten down Chinese peasants, who stand behind a row of open graves. The coffins lying next to the graves are labeled "Victims of Hunger in Red China." In 1961, after a period of disastrous weather, Communist China experienced a severe agricultural famine. The government was forced to change its policies, relaxing centralized controls of the agricultural communes and even giving the farmers the right to farm their own plots. Valtman suggests that the only plots that many Chinese will receive will be their own graves.
Cartoon was one of the group submitted by Valtman when he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962.
Published in: The Hartford times, Mar. 9, 1961.
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