The Great October Socialist Revolution proclaimed proletarian internationalism as one of the main principles of the socialist state's foreign policy, which includes providing assistance to oppressed peoples in their struggle for national liberation and independent development. The first countries that Soviet Russia applied this principle to in practice were its neighbors to the East, including China. The very fact of the appearance of a friendly socialist power on its northern borders significantly changed China's international position and made it easier for it to fight against the foreign bases that hindered its development, the unequal treaties and the privileges of foreign capital associated with them. In an address to the Chinese people of July 25, 1919. The Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR pointed out that "if the Chinese people want to become free, like the Russian people, and avoid the fate that the allies at Versailles have prepared for them... let them understand that their only ally and brother in the struggle for freedom is the Russian worker and peasant and his Red Army." 1 The appeal reminded that immediately after October 1917, "the workers' and peasants ' government... declared all secret treaties concluded with Japan, China, and the former allies" destroyed, and invited the Chinese government to enter into negotiations for the annulment of all such treaties concerning China concluded from 1896 to 1916. This appeal, which was one of the most important international legal acts of the Soviet state, contained a complete rejection of the unequal treaties imposed on China at the end of the XIX century, as well as special privileges and rights, including the right of extraterritoriality and concessions, with the return to China of the Russian part of the "boxer" indemnity levied from China after the Yihetuan uprising of 1899-1901 recognition of China's right to customs autonomy 2 . This document was the first in China's history act of direct ass ... Read more