Telegram to the USSR
(February 21, 1954)

Source: RMRB (Feb. 14, 1952), 1, Other Chinese Text: XHYB, 3 (Mar.
~<anh 51. Available English Translation: NCNA, Daily Bulletin, 992 (Feb.
» 1954), 1,

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

‘Comrade Malenkov:

fon the occasion of the thirty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the armed
$ of the Soviet Union, | express to you, comrade chairman, our sincere
i nBratulations. May the glorious Soviet armed forces gain daily in strength
IIS cause of consolidating and defending world peace,

'Bned and dated in Beijing)

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