106 years ago today, July 25, 1919 (June 28, 1919 in the lunar calendar), Soviet Russia issued its first declaration to China. On July 25, 1919, the "First Soviet Declaration on China" announced: Abolish all secret treaties signed by Emperor Russia with China, Japan, and the Allies, abandon all land acquired by the imperial Russian government through aggression in northeastern China and elsewhere, abolish the imperial Russian consular jurisdiction and concessions in China, abandon the Russian part of the Boxer Indemnity, and abandon all imperial Russia's privileges in the Middle East railway. On September 27, 1920, the Soviet government led by Lenin issued the "Second Declaration on China". In addition to reaffirming the main contents of the first declaration on China, it also recommended that the two countries resume diplomatic relations and conclude a friendship treaty. Comment: Unfortunately, Stalin refused to admit after Lenin's death