Stalin asks: Instructions or suggestions?
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Zhou Enlai answers that from Comrade Stalin's perspective perhaps this would be advice, but in their perception these would be instructions.
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Stalin notes that we give only advice, convey our opinion, and the Chinese comrades may accept it or not; instructions, on the other hand, are mandatory.
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Zhou Enlai repeats that from the Chinese perspective these are instructions, most valuable instructions. He notes that they do not accept these instructions blindly, but consider it necessary to understand and accept them deliberately.
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Stalin emphasizes that we know China too little, and that is why we are cautious in giving instructions.
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Zhou Enlai says that Comrade Stalin certainly is well familiar with the particular issues they are addressing, and asks again whether there will be any instructions.
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Comrade Stalin answers that our advice is this: We should remember that England and America will try to place their people into the apparatus of the Chinese government. It does not matter if they are American or French. They will work to undermine, try to cause decay from within, could even commit such crimes as poisonings. That is why we must be alert. He says we should keep this in mind. Here these are all the instructions.
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Zhou Enlai says that these are very valuable instructions. He agrees that not only Americans, English, and French can commit such treacheries, but they also push the Chinese into it.
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Stalin adds: Their agents from the [Chinese] national bourgeoisie.
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Molotov, returning to the question of military credit, the payment for weapons for sixty Chinese divisions, asks whether he understood Zhou Enlai correctly the last time, that the cost of deliveries for sixty divisions is not related to the military credit, granted by the Soviet government to China from February 1, 1951, according to the agreement. The deliveries of weaponry for sixty Chinese infantry divisions will be paid in [the] full amount according to the credit, granted in a special agreement between China and the Soviet Union.
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Zhou Enlai answers that Comrade Molotov understood him absolutely correctly, and again asserts that the weapon supplies for sixty Chinese divisions have to be paid in full, according to the rates established for countries other than China, and not in half.
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Stalin says that in this case we should sign a special agreement.
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He mentions the gifts presented to Soviet representatives by the Chinese government, and notes that there have been very many gifts.
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Zhou Enlai explains that they could not present gifts to Comrade Stalin for the seventieth anniversary [of Stalin's birth]. They attended the museum of gifts, saw the gifts sent by other countries, and they feel they must make up for what they were not able to do before.
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Stalin says that we also would like to present the Chinese delegation automobiles made in USSR. He says that we have automobiles ''ZIS," smaller than "ZIM," but very beautiful, and we would like to present you with these "ZISs."
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