Telegram to the USSR
(November 5, 1951)

Source: RMRB (Nov. 7, 1951), 1. Other Chinese Text: XH¥B, 1 (Nov. 25,
1951), 79. Available English Translation: PC, TV:10 (Noy. 16, 1962), 3.

Chairman,
The Council of Ministers,
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Comrade Stalin:

On this occasion of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the great October Revo-

lution, on behalf of the Chinese people, the government of the People’s

tic of China, and on my own behalf, [extend to the people and gover:

fone of the Soviet Union and to Your Excellency our sincerest congratula-

Please allow me to congratulate the Soviet Union on its tremendous

achievements in socialist construction and in the communist construction that

i just begun, These achievements have instilled boundless courage in the
ing people of the whole world in their struggle for a bright future.

ape allow me to congratulate the Soviet Union on the great victory of its

icy of peace. This victory has thwarted the disgraceful schemes of those

Fe i ontliate war and has united the peace-loving peoples throughout the

und given them faith that peace will triumph over war.

KARL GE


224. | MAQ ZEDONG

Please allow me to express my congratulations on the great unstmakeg)
friendship between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of Oj
which grows closer with each day, This friendship, which embraces onejhy
of the population of the entire world, is the most reliable guarantee of th 9
tain victory of the cause of peace and progress in the world.
(Signed as Chairman of CPG of PRC, dated, in Beijing)