How Tensions Grew Between Mao's China & Khrushchev's Soviet Union | Mao's Cold War | Timeline 

Remember when the History channel had documentaries like this?

Mao: The Soviets are getting too friendly with the West Also Mao: *shakes Nixon's hand*

Shout out to the camera mans that was able to capture these footage so we can watch them today. Imagine trying to record with sound of gun shooting and explosive around you

Trust between the Soviets and Mao was always fraught. The Soviets initially backed Chiang Kai-shek in the 1920s.

“Why don’t you get rid of Mao” 🤣 said to the Chinese delegation. USSR really had balls, well, used to have!

A cold war within the Cold War

Excellent documentary. As a Chinese American immigrant, my parents grew up through the Cultural Revolution but were never able to articulate the chaos they grew up in. American education completely glossed over China's role in the Cold War. I never knew that Mao's weird on-off relationship with the Soviet Union was the main reason why his domestic policies came about the way they did. It's heart-breaking, honestly.

My mother still remembers the events of 1969. The entire USSR was on the edge. They were terrified it would be nuclear war.

This is history not taught in school. I had no idea about this. This puts a new spin on things happening in the 60's and beyond. Thank you.

This documentary is a pretty China heavy point of view. It would be nice to hear a few Russian voices in this as well. Not just Chinese.

My grandparents grew up during the Great Leap Forward Movement, and grandpa would tell us stories of those times when he and his family had little to no food on the table and use these stories to teach us not to waste food.

I get the sense that this documentary incorrectly portrays many domestic Chinese policies as being inspired by the Sino-Soviet rivalry, when it seems to me that they had their own domestic origins and motivations.

Great leap backwards- Kruschev

100 documentaries are not enough to picture Chinas history. Never a dull moment in China

It's amazing how well those veterans have aged. They all look about 20 years younger than they have to be.

One of the sweetest moments is finding another piece of history I didn't know much about - surprised at myself actually :)

So much for the so called “Unbreakable Alliance”.

Thank you for uploading such a great video. I can't believe there was so much into sino-soviet split that I didnt know before

In the end, China got ownership of Zhenbao island. They also got ownership of Tielieketi after signing a border treaty with Kazikhstan.

Excellent presentation. Very appropriate narration: voice, intonation. Clear and cohesive flow, that doesn't bore the audience.

Guess this explains how Nixon cozied up to the Chinese in 1972 and went over there for a big photo op when we had troops in Vietnam fighting the Soviet backed North Vietnamese.

The Bigger the Empire, the higher the chances of Internal Conflict

China:send troops Soviets:send Tanks and artillery China :capture soviet tank Soviets:send NUCLEAR BOMB CHINA: Send US

Thank you for the documentary. Wish I had learned this in high School.

Great footage! Never seen that one before

Great documentary. Thanks for the upload!

This was awesome!!

Throughout human history, friends became foes, enemies became friends…….it never changes.

I still remember those underground bunkers in the city for nuclear war. The new generation in China probably forgets those events. This video is a very informative and interesting documentary to teach them about history.

Geopolitics is a very very weird science.

My grandmother (93 years old) (from Taishan region) told me how they and the village and everyone they knew had to sell everything they had (the rice, the livestock and anything agriculture related) to pay off the Soviet Union. This story was told to me a long time ago until I encountered another lady (now in her 60's) when I told her the same story she said it was true except it happened when she was a little girl and didn't know what was going on. It's only recently that this was a massive export to paying off the USSR's debt because the interest was too high to keep maintaining...

Thank you for this video

The video is an excllent summary and insights of Sino Soviet relations during those years. I lived throught them and can confirm some of the events talked about here. I really appreciated this video. But I want to point out that some of the footages within the video are mixed up with time. Some of the footage about the three year famine with big crowds are clearly footages of China before 1949 (the year Mao took China) and some of them are even old footages that Chinese fighting with Japanese during WWII.

This is a very informative and interesting documentary. Thanks.

When Soviet and China at war. Mongolia: Man, this is a great movie to watch

Interesting. US saved China from being nuked. Also, I didn’t know this tension occurred during the height of the Vietnam war. Damn, how the world would have changed.

Soviet uninon‘s biggest mistake is involving cold war with China and USA at the same time

I didn't know that the Soviet seriously considered the Nuclear Option History could have changed quite a lot then

First time I have ever heard about this history. Excellent!

The Bear and the Dragon!

It’s all about who control the land, sea and air, on this planet call earth.

An absurd conflict born of the total lack of diplomacy on both sides.

We all learnt about the cold war at school but I think the Sino-Soviet split only got a footnote. I did not know that China got involved in the Korean war because Stalin asked them to, or that there was actual fighting between China and the Soviets.

Thanks!

Seeing what's going on between China and India I see the relevance of this documentary.

I never knew quite so much about this relationship before. Fascinating! Thank you for putting this out, and I look forward to more such informative programming.

Amazing, thank you

This is crazy. I graduated high school in 1969. I was on to worrying about the Cuban-missle crisis but I never heard anything about a shooting war between China and the Soviet Union. Crazy.

I haven't watched a video yet but I really am excited to learn about this

I had no knowledge of this incident, i was so intrigued by this docu. thanks.

Wow!!! This history didn’t exist to me until today. Mind blowing

The best info on the split I can find anywhere online, so clear and concise with specific data as to the beginning and worsening of relations, thank you for this

Minor unstated detail around 10:00: Mao's son was killed in that Chinese troop movement into Korea, something which probably didn't help Mao's love for the Russians much.

Thank you for sharing this video it’s rare to see inside China during this time period. I would be interested in seeing more videos like this.

The fight over that tank. For it to sink beneath the ice and raise that thing up from below is wild to me; all under shelling. Great and Informative.

Excellent documentary. Many thanks! Greetings from Cancún, México 🇲🇽

I remember as a kid in sixth grade hearing about this on the news. Of course we did not have a grasp on what was really going on.

that was an excellent documentary. i knew of the tension between the Soviets and China, but this was insightful

27:45 Professor Lee. The hilarity of that situation is astounding

This was a great documentary, and I never heard of the skirmishes on the China-USSR border. This was very well produced. Thank you.

It would have been nice to have more of the Soviet perspective.

From 9:00-9:26 you can hear lines from Stronghold Legends music

A great piece of history. Before the revolution from Imperialism 1911, The Father of Modern Democrtic China the First Chinese president Sun Yet-sen Who was teacher of both Moa Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. President Sun constructed the first Chinese Consitution even when he was very sick. It was the 3 people (citizens) principle China still live by.. There were more people die of hunger before 1911 and carried on to 1949 due to the country's weakness and corruption. The one thing Moa did very well and never got even mentioned, was he put women's equal right into the Chinese Constitution in 1949 when he just found the Communist China. Please notice in this video there were almost as many female soldiers in the front line as the male soldiers. I realized that was why when I saw PBS news last month regarding the sexual assault in the US military became a crisis, my tears came down for a long time. I was born in 1949 in HongKong a British Colony, my late God-father was a soldier. I heard a lot of stories about the war. A good leader's Vision is to guide his followers into 100 years' plan. Until today China is still the only one in Asia that have women's equal rights in their Constitution. The other 8 countries in the west are Belgium,Canada, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg, Iceland and Sweden. It is very important for the human race, If the mother of the next generation hurting while bearing them. When will be the quality of the next generation?

Now this is a story I wanted to hear.

Take a look at how Russia became the Soviet Union and how China changed from the Qing Dynasty to the People’s Republic of China. You will know these two countries can share the troubles but not the riches. The Soviet Union no longer exists, but Mao’s Communist Party still exists. I’m really curious how the Soviet Union created a system let system leader hate each other,

"Chinese protester being crushed by Soviet tanks." "Chinese fisherman being harassed." These remind me of something...

One of the best documentary s I have ever seen !!!@

Back in the 1950s. When the USA and USSR thought they have nukes, massive and comprehensive military advantage against China. But in Korea peninsula and Zhenbao island, the reality says otherwise.

Hope you guys make a video of sino Vietnamese war too.

Thanks for this documentary, so much I don't know.

Very nice video

Great leap.. Into graves...

Fascinating history. I did not know about the border war.

"We got rid of Stalin, you should get rid of Mao". My though too.

I knew nothing much about india/Soviet conflicts with China.. Thank you 'poster' 👍😉

That poor boy dropped the vase of flowers his whole family

I'm not a fan of Nixon and Kissinger, but they understood the rift between the USSR and China, and played the two nations against each other to give the United States an advantage over both.

It is quite misleading. All the video clips used to show China's 3 year's famine were taken in old China, before Mao' s time. They were from KMT time in 1930s or 1940s

Thank you all this History of the Sino Russian wars I have learned so much ....

If the USSR and PRC had somehow managed to patch up their differences, a strong partnership between the two as a unified 'communist' bloc would have been an absolute behemoth on the world stage. China brings to the table a huge population, economic potential, and warm-water ports. The USSR also had a large population (ranked #3 in the world at the time I believe, ahead of the US at #4) absolutely massive geography, natural resources (oil and gas especially), industrial capacity, and military technology. Combined, they would have given anybody else a run for their money, economically and militarily speaking.

Ahh the "secret speech" denouncing Stalins crimes. Never knew it had consequences outside the USSR.

33:33 Well, that was random. Playing Vivaldi's Gloria as background music for a bloody battle fought on the Chinese-Soviet border.

This is so cool and interesting

The accent of these old soldiers matches the battle ground area.

Finally something interesting

Great documentary

it's gorgeous documentary

You did not mention the Mig-15. Soviets supplied the Mig-15, China operated the Mig-15. It would appear that Stalin did, in fact, give his most modern conventional weapons to China during the war of Korea.

I remember when I was six years old reading about this conflict but not much was published in the press.

"The great leap down a cliff" sounds more fitting than "the great leap forward"

Correction needed: the white-blue-red flag in the thumbnail (next to PRC flag and Mao's profile) is that of modern day Russia, which was one of fifteen republics in the Soviet Union. USSR had a different national flag: red banner with gold hammer and sickle.

Mao as a grass-rooted revolutionist, educated himself through the Chinese history and wisdom, his plain philosophy is to gain true independence at all cost, he managed to bargain adequately from Stalin to return few Russian occupied military bases, but on the ally end, he has been always very skeptical and in a balanced view from nowadays, it was too blunt and aggressive to deal with Russian relationship and associated Chinese domestic development.

Eye opening! Never knew there was an acrimony between soviets and China, let alone one that led to border war and brink of nuclear Holocaust. I can also see how mao forged china’s new found sense of national pride and place in the world ( albeit at the cruel price of disastrous policies). I’m indebted to this insight. Thank you

Never knew of such a recent mini-war between the two!

I knew of the Sino Soviet split, but I had no idea that they actually fought on the battlefield!

Man moa was crazy, the soviets where the most cautious empirw on earth

I knew they were at odds and competing but didn't know they fought.

Magnificent !

If there was a Fallout game set in China/Soviet Union in the scenario the Soviet-Sino relations soured towards war it would be interesting

Mao, Stalin, and Kruschev, what a photo op!