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April 5, 1959

Minutes of the Meeting between Mao and G.C. Pajetta, During a Mission Which Took Place April 5 to May 3, 1959

In April 1959, during a meeting with Giancarlo Pajetta, head of the first high-profile PCI delegation to China, Mao Zedong raised major misgivings about the Italian communists’ peaceful approach to achieving socialism.