The Soviet Union rationalized this by raising the slogan that "To understand our friend China, it was enough to understand it from the works of Chinese." They turned to large scale translation of contemporary Chinese works and classics.
蘇共自圓其說，標舉「要瞭解中國這位朋友，只要由中國人的作品去瞭解就夠了」的口號，轉而大量翻譯當代中文作品與古典名著。