Telegram of Solicitude on Comrade Stalin's Illness
(March 4, 1953)

To the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Dear Comrade J. V. Stalin:

On learning the distressing news of your serious illness, the Chinese people, the Chinese Government and I myself, with the deepest concern, extend to you our sincere solicitude and earnestly hope that your condition will take a turn for the better and that you will recover your health, so as to fulfil the hopes of the peace-loving people of China and the whole world.

Mao Zedong
March 4, 1953, Beijing