Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Dec. 27.- The Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, paid tribute to Mao Zedong, founder of the Communist Party of China and the People's Liberation Army, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of his birth.
The party leader evoked in his X account the figure of Mao Zedong, first president of the People's Republic of China, and ratified the commitment to continue strengthening relations between Cuba and that Asian nation.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) founded the Communist Party in 1921, which fought in the war of the agrarian revolution (1927-1937) and faced the Japanese invasion (1931-1945).
He proclaimed himself president of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 and in 1958 began the policy known as the Great Leap Forward.
He promoted a socialist education campaign, in which he highlighted massive popular participation as the only way to achieve true socialism; Through the Cultural Revolution he managed to dismantle and then reorganize the party, thanks to the participation of youth, through the Red Guard.
Cuba established diplomatic relations with the Asian giant in 1960, being the first country in the Western Hemisphere to recognize New China, and since then they have become an exemplary case of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries. (Text and photo: PL)
