February 10, 1958
Note, M. Zimianin to the Central Committee of the CPSU and to Comrade Iu. V. Andropov
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To the CC of the CPSU
To Comrade Iu. V. Andropov
With this we are sending you memoranda on discussions held by the Consul-General of the USSR in Ürümchi, Comrade G. S. Dobashin, and the Manager of the consulate in Ghulja, Comrade G. P. Blokin, with leading workers of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC, on the activity of the expanded plenum of this region’s Party Committee.
M. Zimianin
10 February 1958
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A cover sheet for a memorandum of conversation between Soviet diplomats and leading officials in Xinjiang.
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