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MAO CALLS FOR REVOLUTIONARY WARS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
May 17th, 1965

Chairman Mao Tse Tung has called for national wars of liberation in third world countries. The Communist leader issued his call with a pledge to support those people who would dare to throw off the yolk of western colonial imperialism.