Letter to Lin Gusheng[1]
(May 7, 1950)

Mr. Gusheng:

I have received your letter of March 10. The death of Comrade Lin Wei[2] is extremely deplorable. In the future, he should naturally be commemorated together with comrades who have died across the nation.

With this reply, I wish you great well-being.

Mao Zedong
May 7, 1950

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[1] Lin Gusheng (1889–1960), a native of Changhu Village, Yongbi Township, Shaoshan City, Hunan Province. During the Great Revolution, he worked in the training class for worker and peasant cadres organized by the Hunan Provincial Peasant Association. After the founding of New China, he worked in the catering industry in Changsha.
[2] Lin Wei (1898–1928), Lin Gusheng’s younger brother. In 1919, he went to France on a work-study program and joined the Communist Party of China in 1922. In 1925, he entered the Moscow Military Academy. He returned to China in 1926 and served as a Standing Committee member of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Secretary-General of the Provincial Committee. In March 1928, he was killed by the Kuomintang army in Liling, Hunan.