Brothers in Arms (125 page)

Authors: Odd Arne Westad

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Stalin: Our credit agreements with people's democracies provide for 2 percent interest. We could, says Comrade Stalin jokingly, increase this interest for you as well, if you would like. Of course, we acted under the premise that the Chinese economy was practically in ruin.


As is clear from the telegrams that we have received, the Chinese government intends to use its army in the reconstruction of its economy. That is very good. In our time we also made use of the army in our economic development and had very good results.


Mao Zedong: That's fight. We are drawing on the experience of our Soviet comrades.


Stalin: You raised the question of China receiving a certain amount of grain for Xinjiang?


Mao Zedong: Wheat and textile.


Stalin: For this you need to come up with the necessary requests that include numbers.


Mao Zedong: Very well, we shall prepare these.

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