Letter to Khrushchev [1] Regarding the Decision Not to Send a Delegation to the Seventh Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (April 8, 1958)  To Comrade Khrushchev, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union:  We have received your letter of April 3 addressed to us [2] and have listened to the oral explanation given by Comrade Yudin [3]. We believe that, after all communist parties had made every effort to improve relations with the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the fact that the congress of the Yugoslav communists has put forward and is preparing to adopt a systematic program draft which violates many fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism demonstrates the Yugoslav leadership’s intention to disseminate its revisionist theories throughout the world in opposition to the Declaration of the Twelve Communist Parties adopted at the Moscow Meeting.  We have decided to take concerted steps with you, to reverse our previous decision, and not to send a delegation to the Seventh Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Instead, we will entrust Comrade Wu Xiuyuan, our ambassador to Yugoslavia, to attend the congress as an observer. We have also decided not to send a congratulatory telegram to the congress of the Yugoslav communists.  Please inform us of the text (a copy) of your letter notifying the Yugoslav communists of your decision not to send a delegation to their congress, together with the date on which you dispatched it, so that we may immediately communicate our new decision to the Yugoslav communists following your letter.  Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China  April 8, 1958

Printed according to the version revised by Mao Zedong. Notes:  [1] Khrushchev was then First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  [2] Refers to Khrushchev’s letter of April 3, 1958, addressed to Mao Zedong. In this letter, Khrushchev expressed his views on the Seventh Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and on the draft program of the Yugoslav communists, arguing that the draft was deliberately intended to present to the international communist movement a programmatic document essentially contrary to the Declaration of the Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties of Socialist Countries. He pointed out that the draft contained numerous erroneous, non-Marxist assertions and assessments concerning the current international situation, the workers’ movement, the communist movement, and the development of the world socialist system. Accordingly, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was preparing to reverse its earlier decision to send a delegation to the Seventh Congress of the Yugoslav communists, and would instead dispatch only the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia to attend the congress in an observer capacity.  [3] Yudin was then the Soviet ambassador to China.