The Sino Soviet Split: Explained

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The Sino-Soviet Split was an important point in the Cold War whereby China and the USSR accused each other of being completely fake Communists. Thus they both threw a bit of a fit and refused to talk to each other anymore until the USSR died. Does anyone even read these?

Sources:

The Role of Foreign Affairs in the Fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964 by Paul Du Quenoy

Mao and China’s Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s: A New Look at the Taiwan Strait Crises and the Sino-Soviet Split by Michael M. Sheng

Competing for Leadership: Split or Détente in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, 1959-1961 by Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia