亚洲的人民,今天像狮子一样地站立起来了。亚洲许多国家的人民,百余年来,甚至几百年来,遭受了几个非亚洲国家的残酷的剥削和压迫。整个亚洲,除了日本之外,都相继沦为这几个非亚洲的帝国主义国家和日本的殖民地、半殖民地、或附属国。早已进行着争取民族独立和自由的英勇斗争的亚洲被压迫人民,受到了一九一七年俄国十月革命的鼓舞。俄国社会主义革命的成功,苏维埃政府的放弃沙皇的帝国主义政策,不仅 The people of Asia stood like a lion today. The peoples of many Asian countries have suffered the cruel exploitation and oppression of several non-Asian countries over a hundred years or even centuries. All of Asia, except Japan, have been successively reduced to these non-Asian imperialist countries and Japan’s colonies, semi-colonies and dependencies. The oppressed peoples of Asia who have long been engaged in the heroic struggle for national independence and freedom have been encouraged by the Russian October Revolution in 1917. The success of the Russian socialist revolution, the abandonment of the Tsar’s imperialist policy by the Soviet government, not only