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"I would like to say a few words about the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. I think there are two “swords”: one is Lenin and the other Stalin. The sword of Stalin has now been discarded by the Russians, Gomulka and some people in Hungary have ... 
... picked it up to stab at the Soviet Union and oppose so-called Stalinism. The Communist Parties of many European countries are also criticising the Soviet Union and their leader is Togliatti. The imperialists also use this sword to slay people with Dulles, for instance, ...
... has brandished it for some time. This sword has not been lent out, it has been thrown out. We Chinese have not thrown it away. First, we protect Stalin, and, second, we at the same time criticise his mistakes, and we have written the article “On the Historical Experience ...
... of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. Unlike some people who have tried to defame and destroy Stalin, we are acting in accordance with objective reality. As for the sword of Lenin, hasn’t it too been discarded to a certain extent by some Soviet leaders? In my view, it ...
... has been discarded to a considerable extent. Is the October Revolution still valid? Can it still serve as the example for all countries? Khrushchev’s report at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union says it is possible to seize state power by ...
... the parliamentary road, that is to say, it is no longer necessary for all countries to learn from the October Revolution. Once this gate is opened, by and large Leninism is thrown away."
— Mao; 1956
— Mao; 1956
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