Telegram to Stalin
(December 19, 1949)

Source: RMRB (Dec. 21, 1949), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHYB, 1:3 (Jan. 15,4
1950), 591. :

Chairman Stalin,
The Council of Ministers,
The Government of the Soviet Union

Your Excellency:

On this happy occasion of Your Excellency’s seventieth birthday, I sincerely extend to you my respect and my best wishes for the daily
strengthening of the fortress for world peace and democracy under Your
Excellency’s leadership.
(Signed as Chairman of CPG of PRC and dated)