Comrade Bo Gu:
The second part of [V. N.] Rogov’s article is extremely important; please run it in tomorrow’s newspaper and also broadcast it. The day after tomorrow, please publish Rogov’s entire article (both the first and second parts) again in the editorial section under the title “Criticism of the Chinese Government” and put Rogov’s name at the bottom, with a short note next to it saying: “Rogov is the head of the Chinese branch of TASS, the Soviet news agency. His essay seriously criticizing the Chinese government appeared in the August 8 issue of the magazine War and the Working Classes, published in Moscow. Our newspaper has previously published it in two separate parts. We are printing it here again so that our readers can read it through in its entirety. This essay by Rogov has been widely printed in American and British newspapers and has attracted attention from people all over the world. It has also been warmly received by truly patriotic Chinese in Chongqing. This truly is the first time in the six years of the War of Resistance that a Soviet personage has given a systematic critique of the Chinese government, and this criticism is in complete harmony with the opinions of the Chinese Communist Party and with those of true patriots. We hope that the Guomindang authorities will not ignore impartial international and domestic public opinion and will diligently correct its mistakes. Doing so will greatly benefit the future of the War of Resistance. Rogov’s complete essay follows.”2 The title should be in especially large type. The note and the text should be in no. 4 size font. The essay should also be broadcast once or twice. Especially attend to ensuring that [Dong] Biwu3 receives it, and ask him to print and distribute as many copies as possible in Chongqing (I will send him a telegram).
Mao Zedong
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong xinwen gongzuo wenxuan, pp. 110–11, where it is taken from the manuscript.
1. Regarding Qin Bangxian, see above, note to Mao’s letter to He Kaifeng, September 15, 1942.
2. Rogov’s article was published in full in the September 14, 1943, issue of Jiefang ribao, p. 1.
3. Regarding Dong Biwu, see above, note to the text of July 21, 1943. He was at this time working in the Liaison Office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing; for details on Dong, see also the note to the text “Congratulatory Speech at the Mass Meeting,” January 15, 1940, in Vol. VII, pp. 370–71.