February 8, 1963, the Communist Party of Iraq found itself in a condition of complete unpreparedness and suffered heavy losses. . . .
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[Comrade Ponomarev will speak today for our delegation.]
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Comrades, yesterday we heard the second address by the head of the Chinese delegation. Our delegation cannot hide the fact that we came out of the meeting feeling deep sorrow and distress. Of course, this was not because the address allegedly contained criticism, which is what Deng Xiaoping had in mind when he talked about "bitter, but necessary medicine." We Communists are steadfast people, and more than once have [we] come across not only groundless criticism but also malicious slander.
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No, that was not what left us with a bitter taste. The second address by Comrade Deng Xiaoping confirmed our worst fears, formed toward the end of his first speech. It is becoming clearer and clearer that the delegation of the CC of the CCP came here not to find agreement and to eliminate our differences. Your design, evidently, is different to bring a whole load of [?] to Moscow, to dump it on us, to do everything, not shying away from any tactics, to defame the policies of the CPSU and thereby further worsen the relations between our two parties and countries. . . .
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You fabricated an undoubted falsehood to the effect that the USSR did not aid the Algerian people's war of liberation. Here are the facts. In the most decisive period of the war, from 1960 to 1962, we supplied free to the People's Liberation Army of Algeria 25,000 rifles, 21,000 machine guns and submachine guns, 1,300 howitzers, cannons, and mortars, many tens of thousands of pistols and other weapons. Over 5 million rubles' worth of clothes, provisions, and medical supplies were supplied to Algeria by Soviet social organizations alone. Hundreds of wounded from the People's Liberation Army of Algeria were saved and treated in the Soviet Union. Soviet wheat, sugar, butter, conserves, condensed milk, etc., streamed into Algeria.
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Finally, Fabrication Number 5. You again and again repeat your lies about Soviet policy toward Poland, Hungary, and Cuba. Who are you [to set yourselves up] as judges in these matters, if the party and governmental leaders of these three countries fully, decisively, and publicly for the whole world reject your insinuations and declare to you that it is impermissible for representatives of a Communist Party to try and split the USSR, Poland, and Hungary through fabrications? Comrade Fidel Castro in speeches in the USSR and on returning [to Cuba] clearly described the internationalist policies of the CPSU. By the way, why didn't you publish these speeches? They would have shown the Chinese people that your position during the Caribbean crisis was erroneous and contradicted the interests of the Cuban, Soviet, and Chinese peoples. . . .
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Andropov: As for you, you long ago ceased any sort of consultation with us. In 1958, the Chinese side did not inform us in a timely fashion about its intentions to carry out the shelling of the coastal islands in the Taiwan Straits which was carried out soon after
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