July 14, 1963 _ Dear Comrades, = The Central Committee of the CPSU deems it ne- céssary to address an open letter to you in order to _ Set out its position on the fundamental questions of the international Communist movement in connection With the letter of the Central Committee of the Com- _ Munist Party of China of June 14, 1963. The Soviet people are well aware that our party 4 and government, expressing the will of the entire viet people, spare no efforts to strengthen fraternal "endship with the peoples of all the socialist coun- ties, with the Chinese people. We are united by com- ‘Mon struggle for the victory of communism, we have the Same aim, the same aspirations and hopes. __ For many years the relations between our parties Were good. But some time ago, serious differences _ €aMe to light between the CPC on the one hand, and the CPSU and the other fraternal parties, on the other. At the present time the Central Committee of the CPSU feels increasingly concerned over ‘the statements 8d actions of the leadership of the Communist Party . China which are undermining the cohesion of our ‘Parties, the friendship of our peoples. ; The CPSU Central Committee, for its part, has been Ae €verything possible to overcome the differences ich came to light and proposed in January this Year that open polemics in the Communist movement Stopped so that the disputed issues could be dis- cussed calmly and in a businesslike manner, and solved ®n'a principled Marxist-Leninist foundation. This pro- al of the CPSU met with warm support among all € fraternal parties. Afterwards, agreement was hed on a meeting between representatives of the . CPsu and the CPC, which is now taking place in — ™Oscow, The CPsu Central Committee hoped that the Chin- _ Comrades, like ourselves, would display good will ae Would contribute to the success of the meeting in ost interests of our peoples, in the interests of Ty nethening the unity of the Communist movement. oa Our regret, when agreement was reached on a yy. 88 Of representatives of the CPSU and CPC in date of : ae i Chinese com the meeting was agreed upon, the Tades, instead of submitting the divergences for : Se Ssion at the meeting, unexpectedly found it pos- | 4..° 20t only to set out the old differences openly, &§ Sa the entire world, but also to advance new Se arges against the CPSU and the other Communist Partie ‘ letter Of the CPC Central Committee of June 14 this ‘Decl; Which gave an arbitrary interpretation of the “ration and Statement of the Moscow meetings of Fesentatives of the Communist and Workers parties, Ww, when the delegations were appointed and the S. This was expressed in the publication of a_ OPEN LETTER central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union TO ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND ALL COMMUNISTS IN THE SOVIET UNION distorted the basic principles of these historic docu- ments. The letter of the CPC Central Committee contained groundless, slanderous attacks on our party and on the other Communist parties, on the decisions of the 20th, 21st, and 22nd Congress and on the Pro- gram of the CPSU. As you know from the statement by the CPSU Cen- tral Committee published in Pravda on June 19, this year, the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, having studied the letter, arrived at the conclusion that publication of the letter of the CPC Central Com- mittee of June 14 in the Soviet press at that time would be inexpedient. Publication of the letter would naturally have required a public reply on our part, which would have led to a further aggravation of the polemics and inflamed the passions, and thereby worsened the relations between our parties. Publica- tion of the letter of the CPC Central Committee would have been the more untimely since a meeting was to be held between representatives of the CPSU and the CPC, whose purpose, in our opinion, is to contribute through the examination of the existing differences in a comradely spirit to better mutual understanding between our two: parties on the vital questions of world development today, to the establishment of a favorable atmosphere for the preparation and hold- ing of a meeting of representatives of all Communist and Workers’ parties. . At the same time the Presidium of the Central Com- mittee of the CPSU deemed it necessary to acquaint the members of the CPSU Central Committee and all the participants in the plenary meeting with the letter of the CPC Central Committee, and informed them of the substance of differences between the CPC leadership and the CPSU and other Marxist-Leninist parties. In its unanimously adopted decision the plenary meeting of the Central Committee fully approved the political activity of the Presidium of the CPSU Cen- tral Committee, the First Secretary of the CPSU Cen- tral Committee and Chairman of the Council of Min- isters of the USSR N. S. Khrushchov in the further rallying of the world Communist movement, and all the steps taken by the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee in its relations with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The plenary meeting of the CPSU Central Commit- tee instructed the Presidium of the Central Committee unswervingly to follow at the meeting with represen- tatives of the CPC the line of the 20th, 21st and 22nd Congresses of our party, the line which was approved at the meetings of representatives of the Communist parties and set out in the Declaration and Statement, the line which was fully confirmed by life, by the course of international developments. Emphatically re- jecting as groundless and slanderous the attacks of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on our party and other Communist parties, on the decisions of the 20th, 21st and 22nd Congresses, _ clared in a demonstrative way that they regarded the USSR, the Chinese officials sought at the meeting ‘ on the Program of the CPSU, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee, expressing the will of the entire party, declared its readiness and determination consistently to pursue the course of rallying the fra- ternal parties, overcoming the existing differences. The — plenary meeting declared that our party would strive, in future too, to strengthen unity on the basis of the principles of Marxism-Leninism and socialist interna- tionalism, fraternal friendship between the CPSU and the CPC in the interests of struggle for our common. cause. Unfortunately, recent events have shown that the Chinese comrades interpret our restraint in their own | way. They depict our sincere striving to avoid a sharpening of the polemics in the Communist move- ment as almost an intention to hide the views the Chinese leaders from the Communists, from the Soviet people. Mistaking our restraint for weakness, the Chinese comrades, contrary to the standards of friendly relations between fraternal socialist countries, have begun with increasing importunity and persist- ence unlawfully to spread in Moscow and other Soviet cities the letter of the CPC Central Committee of June 14, which was published in Russian in a mass printing. Not content with this, the Chinese comrades began sedulously to popularize and spread this letter and other documents directed against our party throughout the world, unscrupulously using imperialist. publishing houses and agencies for their distribution. — Matters were aggravated by the fact that when the ministry of foreign affairs of the USSR drew to the attention of the Chinese ambassador in the Soviet Union the impermissibility of such actions, which — crudely violated the sovereignty of our state, the Chinese representatives, far from stopping them, de- the continuation of spreading the letter in the USSR as their right. gee On July 7, when the meeting had already begun in Moscow, a mass meeting was held in Peking at which Officials welcomed as heroes the Chinese expelled — from the Soviet Union for the unlawful distribution of materials containing attacks on our party and the Soviet government. Whipping up among the fraternal Chinese people sentiments and feelings unfriendly to to prove again their right to violate the sovereignty — of our state and the standards of international rela- tions. On July 10, the CPC Central Committee issued another statement in which it justified these actions and, in effect, tried to arrogate to itself the right to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union which the Soviet government, naturally, will never allow. Such actions inevitably only aggravate relations and can do nothing but harm. a In its leading article on July 13, the newspaper Renmin Ribao repeatedly attacked our party and distorted the fact that the Soviet press did not publish the letter of the CPC Central Committee of June 14. July 26—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 15’