Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

gress, it took a series of steps to reverse the verdict on theTito clique and thus openly tore up the 1960 Statement.10. Since November 1962 the leadership of the CPSUhas launched still fiercer attacks, on an international scale,against the Chinese Communist Party and other Marxist-Leninist Parties and whipped up a new adverse current inorder to split the socialist camp and the international communistmovement. Khrushchov made one statement afteranother and the Soviet press carried hundreds of articles attackingthe Chinese Communist Party on a whole set of issues.Directed by the leaders of the CPSU, the Congresses of thefraternal Parties of Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italyand the Democratic Republic of Germany became stages foranti-China performances, and more than forty fraternal Partiespublished resolutions, statements or articles attacking theChinese Communist Party and other Marxist-Leninist Parties.The facts cited above cannot possibly be denied by theleaders of the CPSU. These iron-clad facts prove that the“fresh efforts” they made after the 22nd Congress of theCPSU were aimed, not at improving Sino-Soviet relations andstrengthening unity between the fraternal Parties and countries,but on the contrary, at further ganging up with the U.S.imperialists, the Indian reactionaries and the renegade Titoclique in order to create a wider split in the socialist campand the international communist movement.In these grave circumstances, the Chinese Communist Partyhad no alternative but to make open replies to the attacks ofsome fraternal Parties. Between December 15, 1962 andMarch 8, 1963 we published seven such replies. In thesearticles we continued to leave some leeway and did not criticizethe leadership of the CPSU by name.Despite the serious deterioration in Sino-Soviet relationsresulting from the errors of the leadership of the CPSU, theChinese Communist Party agreed to send its delegation toMoscow for the talks between the Chinese and Soviet Parties,and, in order that there might be a systematic exchange of97