Stalin - From a telegram to Mao Zedong April 20, 1948

Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 18. - Tver: Information and

Soyuz Publishing Center, 2006, p. 470.

… We do not agree with this. We think that the various opposition political parties in China, representing the middle strata of the Chinese population and opposing the Kuomintang clique, will live for a long time to come, and the Chinese Communist Party will have to enlist them in cooperation against the Chinese reaction and the imperialist powers, while retaining its hegemony, that is, its leading position. It is possible that some representatives of these parties will have to be brought into the Chinese People's Democratic Government, and the government itself declared a coalition government, in order thereby to expand the base of this government in the population and isolate the imperialists and their Kuomintang agents.

... It must be borne in mind that the Chinese government after the victory of the People's Liberation Army of China will, in its policy, at least in the period after the victory, the duration of which is now difficult to determine, a national revolutionary democratic government, and not a communist one.

This means that the nationalization of all land and the abolition of private ownership of land, the confiscation of the property of all the commercial and industrial bourgeoisie from small to large, the confiscation of property not only of large landowners, but also of medium and small ones who live by hired labor, will not be carried out yet. These reforms will have to wait for a certain period.

... For your information, in Yugoslavia, in addition to the Communist Party, there are other parties that are part of the Popular Front.

Ledovsky A.M. USSR and Stalin in the fate of China. S. 56, 75.

AP RF. F. 39. Op. 1. D. 31. L. 28–29.