On Writing an Article Commemorating Dimitrov [1]
Telegram to Comrade Chervenkov [2]
(April 18, 1950)

Comrade Chervenkov:

I only saw your telegram of December 7 last year after I returned from the Soviet Union. I have now written a short article [3] as you requested, but your deadline has long since passed. Whether it is still of use is for you to decide at your discretion.

Mao Zedong
April 18, 1950

[1] Georgi Dimitrov, activist in the international communist movement, served as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. He passed away in July 1949.
[2] Chervenkov, then General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
[3] Refers to Mao Zedong’s article “Dimitrov and the Chinese People,” written for the book *Georgi Dimitrov: Outstanding Activist of the International Workers’ Movement*.

(April 1950)

The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party has decided to publish a special collection on Comrade Dimitrov’s life and activities. I would like to take this opportunity to briefly recount the relationship between Comrade Dimitrov and the Chinese people.

Throughout his tenure as leader of the Comintern, Comrade Dimitrov showed great concern for the Chinese revolution. When he was elected General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Comintern at its Seventh Congress in 1935, he declared, on behalf of the world proletariat, to the Chinese people: “We firmly support your heroic national liberation struggle and are determined to help you put an end to the oppression by all imperialist robbers and their Chinese lackeys and to help you achieve complete independence.”

In November 1937, September 1938, and May 1939, the Comintern repeatedly called on the working class of the whole world to assist the Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japan in every way. The working classes of various countries responded to the Comintern’s call, extending deep sympathy and valuable assistance to the Chinese people and the Chinese army who were resisting the Japanese invaders.

Comrade Dimitrov began to pay attention to the question of establishing an anti-Japanese united front in China very early on. In a special article written in July 1936 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he held that the Chinese Communist Party’s policy of establishing a national united front