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maligned China as warlike, guilty of “adventurism”, 1 and soon and so forth. Back from the Camp David Talks, he wentso far as to try to sell China the U.S. plot of “two Chinas”and, at the state banquet celebrating the tenth anniversary ofthe founding of the People’s Republic of China, he read Chinaa lecture against “testing by force the stability of the capitalistsystem”.The line of revisionism and splittism pursued by the leadershipof the CPSU created serious confusion in the ranks ofthe international communist movement. It seemed as thoughU.S. imperialism had ceased to be the sworn enemy of thepeople of the world. Eisenhower was welcomed by certainCommunists as a “peace envoy”. Marxism-Leninism and theDeclaration of 1957 seemed to be outmoded.In the circumstances, in order to defend Marxism-Leninismand the 1957 Declaration and clear up the ideological confusionin the international communist movement, the CommunistParty of China published “Long Live Leninism!” and twoother articles in April 1960. Keeping to our consistent standof persevering in principle and upholding unity, we concentratedon explaining the revolutionary theses of the 1957 Declarationand the fundamental Marxist-Leninist theories onimperialism, war and peace, proletarian revolution and thedictatorship of the proletariat. The views in these three articleswere totally different from the series of erroneous viewsthat were being propagated by the leaders of the CPSU. However,for the sake of the larger interest, we refrained frompublicly criticizing the comrades of the CPSU and directedthe spearhead of struggle against the imperialists and theYugoslav revisionists.The Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUspends much energy distorting and attacking “Long LiveLeninism!” and the two other articles, but is unable to supportits attacks with any convincing arguments. We should1N. S. Khrushchov, Report to the Session of the Supreme Soviet ofthe USSR, October 1959.78