Telegram on the Forty-Sixth Anniversary
(November 6, 1963)
Moscow

To Comrade Nikita S. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR,
and to Comrade Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR:

On the occasion of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, on behalf of the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China, and the Government of the People’s Republic of China, we extend our warmest congratulations to you and, through you, to the fraternal people of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Government of the Soviet Union.

Forty-six years ago, under the leadership of the great Lenin and the glorious Bolshevik Party, the Russian proletariat and working people launched an armed uprising, overthrew the rule of the bourgeoisie and the landowners, and established the first socialist state. The Great October Socialist Revolution fundamentally shook the foundations of imperialist domination and opened up a broad and straight road for the proletariat, the oppressed peoples, and the oppressed nationalities throughout the world to strive for complete liberation.

Following the victory of the October Socialist Revolution, the great Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet people continued to hold high the banner of October, waging a heroic, indomitable, and arduous struggle that utterly crushed the combined offensive of international imperialism and domestic counter-revolutionary forces, consolidated and strengthened the dictatorship of the proletariat, carried out socialist construction, and achieved socialist industrialization and agricultural collectivization.

During the Second World War, the valiant Soviet people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, defeated the frenzied aggression of German fascism and secured victory in the Great Patriotic War, thereby making a tremendous contribution to the revolutionary and progressive causes of the peoples of the world.

After the Second World War, the Soviet people, with high revolutionary zeal, swiftly healed the wounds of war and attained great successes in the grand undertaking of building their homeland. The Chinese people are sincerely delighted by these achievements of the fraternal Soviet people. The Chinese people have always steadfastly upheld the friendship and unity between the peoples of China and the Soviet Union. The Chinese people firmly believe that this great friendship is eternal, unbreakable, and capable of standing any test. The Chinese people will forever stand together with the fraternal Soviet people, on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, and in accordance with the revolutionary principles set forth in the 1957 Declaration and the 1960 Statement, to safeguard and strengthen the solidarity between the two peoples, as well as the solidarity of the socialist camp and the international communist movement, and to jointly struggle for the victory of world peace, national liberation, people’s democracy, and the socialist cause.

We wish the great Soviet people new achievements in their endeavor to create a bright future. May the friendship between the peoples of China and the Soviet Union continue to grow and flourish for all ages.

Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi, President 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

Beijing, November 6, 1963