CHINESE PURGES
Attack By Moscow
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, May 17. The Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia has accused China’s Communist leaders of mass purges affecting “many hundreds of thousands of persons.” It said Chinese “repressions” were a "foul violation of the elementary democratic rights of free citizens.”
The Izvestia article, first of a new series on China, was one of the most outspoken attacks on China’s internal system to appear in the bit-terly-contested Sino-Sovlet ideological feud. Izvestia said the Chinese had made a state practice of violating socialist legality. Peking interpreted the dictatorship of the proletariat to mean the dictatorship of a group of leaders, and Mao Tse-Tung’s personality cult was the crowning embodiment of this policy. “It is therefore quite understandable that the exposure of the Stalin personality cult by our party was received by the Chinese leaders as something directed against them,” “Izvestia” said.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30443, 18 May 1964, Page 13
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