We publish here the joint statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania which was circulated on the occasion of the 85^th birth anniversary of J.V. Stalin on 21^st December, 1964. While it is a document which bears a great significance from the period of the polemics directed against Soviet revisionism it is little known in the international communist movement. Of special interest are the authors’ negative comments on Beria and the suggestion that J.V. Stalin was ‘eliminated’. We must be grateful to the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) for bringing this document to light.