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September 28, 1948

Cable, Mao Zedong to Stalin

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9. On a series of questions it is necessary to report personally to the VKP(b) CC and to the main master (glavnyi khoziain). To receive instructions I agree to come to Moscow in accordance with the time pointed out in the previous telegram. Now, in general strokes, reporting the aforementioned, [I] ask you to convey this to the VKP(b) CC and to comrade main master. Sincerely hope that they will give us instructions.

Mao Zedong
28.IX.1948

Mao agrees to delay his visit to the USSR until November, but asks that, Stalin and the Cenral Committee give advice about several questions Mao had stated previously.

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APRF: F. 39, Op. 1, D. 31, L. 42. Reprinted in Andrei Ledovskii, Raisa Mirovitskaia and Vladimir Miasnikov, Sovetsko-Kitaiskie Otnosheniia, Vol. 5, Book 1, 1946-February 1950 (Moscow: Pamiatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli, 2005), p. 463. Translated for CWIHP by Sergey Radchenko.

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