Telegram from Mao Zedong and Others Congratulating the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Liberation of Czechoslovakia

Continue to strive for the noble cause of strengthening the unity of the socialist camp, opposing the imperialist policies of aggression and war, safeguarding world peace, and winning human progress.

May the fraternal friendship between the peoples of China and Czechoslovakia withstand the test of time and last forever!

Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China
Zhu De, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

May 8, 1962