The video was edited from a Chinese masterpiece, the Long March Song Cycle (长征组歌) which was made in Feb 1976. The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party, under the eventual command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, escaped in a circling retreat to the west and north, which reportedly traversed some 12,500 kilometers (8,000 miles) over 370 da