Mao portrait in Beijing apparently vandalized

BEIJING, China - Combination photos shows (from L) workers cleaning black paint-like markings from the huge portrait of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong that looms over Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 6, 2014, and the cleaned portrait the same day. The portrait appeared to have been vandalized.

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