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January 9, 1949

Ciphered Telegram No. 50333, Terebin to Kuznetsov, transmitting a Message from Mao Zedong to Stalin

CIPHERED TELEGRAM No. 50333

 

[...]

 

Comrade KUZNETOV

 

A telegram from Mao Zedong.

 

"Com[rade] Stalin!

 

The meeting of the CCP CC Politburo, conducted recently, is over.

 

I am ready to come to you.

 

To cut back the time I hope that you will send planes to Shijiazhuang—two planes, best if four-engine ones.

 

Planes may arrive on any of the three days—18, 19, 20 of this month to Shijiazhuang.

 

If you believe that there is not enough time for technical preparation one can postpone by several days. You decide yourself the concrete day of the planes' arrival and let me know.

 

For security reasons it is desirable that the planes arrive in the aforementioned place early in the morning.

 

21 people are coming with me.

 

Mao Zedong. 9.1.49."

 

No. 12 - TEREBIN - 9 January

[...]

 

Mao announces that he is ready to visit Moscow.


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Source

APRF: F. 39, Op. 1, D. 36, L. 59. Reprinted in Andrei Ledovskii, Raisa Mirovitskaia and Vladimir Miasnikov, Sovetsko-Kitaiskie Otnosheniia, Vol. 5, Book 2, 1946-February 1950 (Moscow: Pamiatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli, 2005), pp. 10-11. Also accessible in RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 330, ll. 0092. Translated by Sergey Radchenko.

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