Editing Mao Zedong (section)

== State visits ==
During his leadership, Mao traveled outside China on two occasions, both times for state visits to the Soviet Union. In his first visit on 16 December 1949, Mao traveled to celebrate the 70th birthday of [[Joseph Stalin]] in Moscow, an event that was also attended by East German deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers [[Walter Ulbricht]] and Mongolian general secretary [[Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal]].<ref>{{lang|ru|Лев Котюков.}} [http://www.ykt.ru/ilken/n0803/s13.htm Забытый поэт.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928062213/http://www.ykt.ru/ilken/n0803/s13.htm |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> Mao's second visit took place between 2 and 19 November 1957; highlights included his attendance at the 40th anniversary ([[Ruby Jubilee]]) celebrations of the [[October Revolution]] (he attended the annual [[1957 October Revolution Parade|military parade]] of the Moscow Garrison on [[Red Square]] as well as a banquet in the [[Kremlin]]) and the [[1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties|International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties]], where he met with other communist leaders.<ref name="ParkSnyder2012">{{cite book |first1=Kyung-Ae |last1=Park |first2=Scott |last2=Snyder |title=North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwoD97Y8XPMC&pg=PA214 |year=2012 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1442218130 |page=214}}</ref>