jan 1, 1958 - Sino-Soviet Split

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Who/Where
China and the Soviet Union
PRC and USSR

What/Why
A conflict over the rise of Khrushchev to power with his policies of destalinization and peaceful coexistence which conflicted with Mao’s belief in Stalinism and confrontation with the West.
Mao saw Khrushchev as an apeaser of NATO and the US and a betrayer of Lenin and Stalin’s legacy in the USSR
Old resentment in China of Russian imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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