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historical significance in the international communist movement.The Central Committee of the CPSU asserts in its OpenLetter that the delegation of the CPC was “completely isolated”at the meeting. This is merely an impudent attempt on thepart of the leadership of the CPSU to represent its defeat asa victory.The principles of mutual solidarity as well as independenceand equality among fraternal Parties and of reaching unanimitythrough consultation were observed at the meeting and themistaken attempt of the leaders of the CPSU to use a majorityto overrule the minority and to impose their views on otherfraternal Parties was frustrated. The meeting demonstratedonce again that in resolving differences among fraternal Partiesit is highly necessary for Marxist-Leninist Parties to stickto principle, persevere in struggle and uphold unity.THE REVISIONISM OF THE CPSU LEADERSHIPBECOMES SYSTEMATIZEDThe Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUasserts that “in appending their signatures to the 1960 Statement,the CPC leaders were only manoeuvring”. Is that reallya fact? No. On the contrary, it was the leaders of the CPSUand not we who were manoeuvring.The facts have shown that at the 1960 meeting of fraternalParties the leaders of the CPSU agreed to delete or changethe erroneous propositions in their draft statement againsttheir will and they were insincere in their acceptance of thecorrect propositions of fraternal Parties. They did not caretwo hoots about the document which was jointly agreed uponby the fraternal Parties. The ink was scarcely dry on theirsignature to the 1960 Statement before they began wreckingit. On December 1 Khrushchov signed the Statement onbehalf of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and twenty-four89