‘Foreign friends’ join anti-Soviet demonstrations in Peking

DOCUMENTS ANTI-CHINESE DEMONSTRATION IN M o s c o w Excerpts from a report by V. Pasenchuk, Pravda, March 8, 1969. "Down with Mao Tse-tung's clique I," "Shame to Mao and his clique--betrayers of the world communist movement!," "The Soviet people are faithful to the cause of socialist revolution!," "The Soviet people and the party are one!," "Glory to the Soviet border guards!," "Soviet borders are inviolable!"-these slogans rang out loudly yesterday in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow. Tens of thousands of Muscovites-workers, office employees, people in science and culture, students--went there to express vigorous protest against the Mao Tse-tung clique's reckless policy of military provocations. In an endless stream they walked along the street that bears the lofty name of Friendship. The Mao Tse-tung adventurists, who have embarked on the path of betrayal of Marxism-Leninism and the cause of socialism, are attempting to bury the great friendship between the Soviet and Chinese people and the ideas of proletarian internationalism. Chinese diplomats huddled together at the windows of their Embassy with the blinds drawn. It was at them that the demonstrators were directing their upraised fists, as well as the slogans and banners exposing the Mao Tse-tung clique as political adventurists. Perhaps they will again try to report to their chiefs on the "mob of hooligans," as they have done in the past--after all, the Peking politicians' falsehoods require false information. But no matter how much Mao Tse-tung and his group mislead their people, the voice of truth will sooner or later reach every Chinese. Today they want to make him fanatically

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serve the "great helmsman" and forget about brotherhood and solidarity with the peoples of the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries; they want to turn him into an "obedient buffalo" for the benefit of Mao Tse-tung's chauvinistic, hegemonic aspirations. The Muscovites' demonstration at the Chinese Embassy in Moscow lasted several hours. More than 50,000 people took part in it. Together with the entire Soviet people, the working people of the capital expressed fervent support for the policy of the Communist Party and its Leninist Central Committee. They resolutely declared that the Soviet people will not tolerate brazen provocations on the border and outrages against U.S.S.R. representatives in Peking. The demonstrators expressed fervent approval and support for the Soviet government's statement that we shall rebuff and resolutely halt the provocational actions of the Chinese authorities. "Down with the policy of provocation and lying pursued by Mao Tse-tung's clique!," "The policy of Man's clique is doomed to failure !"--these are the resolute demands and profound convictions of all Soviet people, who uphold the ideas of socialism, peace, friendship and brotherhood between peoples.

'FOREIGN FRIENDS' JOIN ANTISOVIET DEMONSTRATIONSIN PEKING Hsinhua International News Service ht English, March 13, 1969, excerpts. Over 160 foreign friends from 27 countries and regions in the five continents today marched through the Chinese capital and demonstrated in front of the Soviet Embassy on the Fanhsiulu (Antirevisionism Road). They

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strongly protested against the Soviet revisionist renegade clique, which had directed its armed troops to intrude into China's Chen Pao Island on the Ussuri River in Heilungkiang Province and organized hooligans to carry out frenzied provocations in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow. The foreign friends held portraits of Chairman Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people, and huge streamers inscribed with the words "Strong protest against the armed provocation by the Soviet revisionist renegadeclique." They joined the majestic stream of Chinese demonstrators in the capital. This symbolized the revolutionary friendship and militant unity between the Chinese people and the people of other countries in opposing imperialism and revisionism.

Throughout the Chen Pao Island area, the revolutionary masses and commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army frontier guards have denounced the Soviet revisionists for their criminal aggression. Protest rallies have followed in quick succession in settlements along the Wusuli River. The slogans "Down with the new tsars!" and "Down with Soviet revisionist social-imperialism!" ring over the fields and through the villages. The armymen and people in the area of Chen Pao Island are transforming their anger against the aggressors into mighty fighting strength. Braving temperatures of more than thirty degrees below zero, the poor and lower-middle peasants and the militia there are patrolling and doing sentry duty with the PLA frontier guards.

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PAO AREA Report from HarbOr, Hsinhua blternational Service in English, March, 1969. Amid the nationwide denunciation of the Soviet revisionists' heinous crimes, the heroic armymen and people in the area of Chen Pao Island are translating their bitter hatred for the Soviet revisionist new tsars into mighty fighting strength and taking concrete actions in grasping revolution and promoting production and other work and preparedness against war to counter Soviet revisionists' armed provocations. They are maintaining high vigilance, keeping themselves combat-ready, and have voiced the common will: " I f the Soviet revisionist renegade clique dares to intrude into China's sacred territory again, we will break their backs with our iron fists."

A M o s c o w BROADCAST TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE Excerpts from a commentary "Let Rationality Triumph Over Emotion", Radio Peace and Progress in Mandarin, March 11, 1969. A small island named Damansky in the Ussuri River has recently been the subject of worldwide attention. On orders from Peking authorities, an armed provocation was organized on the Sino-Soviet border which led to bloodshed. Beyond the border is northeast China, where the Soviet troops defeated the enormous armed forces of the Japanese militarists in 1945. The Soviet soldiers, while fighting against the enemy, accomplished many miracles and sacrificed their lives as well. Let us now recall the story of Pavlov, a Soviet serviceman who used his body to block