A KFC branch in China has reinvented itself as a shrine to the Chinese Communist hero Lei Feng, a quasi-mythical figure lauded by Chairman Mao Zedong
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According to the official story, Lei was a 22-year-old soldier who died after a telephone pole fell on his head while on duty. Following his death, his diary was reportedly discovered, full of paeans to the Communist Party and Mao himself, and Lei was adopted as a model comrade. "Parents are dear to their children," one entry is said to have read,"but they can't compare with Chairman Mao.
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