Remarks about the Criticism of Stalin
(October 23, 1956)

Source: RMRB (Sept. 6, 1963), 1, (quotation). Other Chinese Texts: HQ, 17 (Sept.
6, 1963), 9; Sugong lingdao, p. 9. Available English Translations: PR, 6:37 (Sept.
13, 1963), 8–9; Polemics of the International Communist Movement, p. 64.

See text April [6], 1956, especially source note; text Apr. 1956, source note; and texts Aug.
30, 1956, and Nov. 30, 1956. The comment here was made to P. F. Yudin, the Soviet
ambassador to the PRC.

Stalin should be criticized, but we have differing opinions as to the form the
criticism ought to take. There are some other questions, too, on which we disagree.