毛泽东选集/和美国记者安娜·刘易斯·斯特朗的谈话

#§Strong: Do you think there is hope for a political, a peaceful settlement of China's problems in the near future? #§Mao: That depends on the attitude of the U.S. government

#§Strong: Do you think there is hope for a political, a peaceful settlement of China's problems in the near future? #§Mao: That depends on the attitude of the U.S. government

# If the American people stay the hands of the American reactionaries who are helping Chiang Kai-shek fight the civil war, there is hope for peace.

#§Strong: Suppose the United States gives Chiang Kai-shek no help, besides that already given, how long can Chiang Kai-shek keep on fighting? #§Mao: More than a year

#§Strong: Suppose the United States gives Chiang Kai-shek no help, besides that already given, how long can Chiang Kai-shek keep on fighting? #§Mao: More than a year

#§Strong: What if the United States makes it clear that it will give Chiang Kai-shek no more help from now on?#§Mao: There is no sign yet that the U.S. government and Chiang Kai-shek have any desire to stop the war within a short time.

#§Strong: What if the United States makes it clear that it will give Chiang Kai-shek no more help from now on?#§Mao: There is no sign yet that the U.S. government and Chiang Kai-shek have any desire to stop the war within a short time.

#§Strong: How long can the Communist Party keep on?#§Mao: As far as our own desire is concerned, we don't want to fight even for a single day.

#§Strong: How long can the Communist Party keep on?#§Mao: As far as our own desire is concerned, we don't want to fight even for a single day.

#§ But if circumstances force us to fight, we can fight to the finish.

#§Strong: If the American people ask why the Communist Party is fighting, what should I reply? #§Mao: Because Chiang Kai-shek is out to slaughter the Chinese people, and if the people want to survive they have to defend themselves.

#§Strong: If the American people ask why the Communist Party is fighting, what should I reply? #§Mao: Because Chiang Kai-shek is out to slaughter the Chinese people, and if the people want to survive they have to defend themselves.

# §This the American people can understand.

#§Strong: What do you think of the possibility of the United States starting a war against the Soviet Union?#§Mao: There are two aspects to the propaganda about an anti-Soviet war.

#§Strong: What do you think of the possibility of the United States starting a war against the Soviet Union?#§Mao: There are two aspects to the propaganda about an anti-Soviet war.

#§ On the one hand, U.S. #§imperialism is indeed preparing a war against the Soviet Union; the current propaganda about an anti-Soviet war, as well as other anti-Soviet propaganda, is political preparation for such a war.

#§On the other hand, this propaganda is a smoke-screen put up by the U.

#§These are the contradictions between the U.S. reactionaries and the American people and the contradictions of U.S. imperialism with other capitalist countries and with the colonial and semi-colonial countries.

#§ As you know, both Hitler and his partners, the Japanese warlords, used anti-Soviet slogans for a long time as a pretext for enslavement of the people at home and aggression against other countries.

# Now the U.S. reactionaries are acting in exactly the same way.

#§To start a war, the U.S. reactionaries must first attack the American people.

# §They are already attacking the American people - oppressing the workers and democratic circles in the United States politically and economically and preparing to impose fascism there.

# §The people of the United States should stand up and resist the attacks of the U.S. reactionaries.

# §I believe they will.