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You guys are all much more well-read on communism than me, so I ask based on this quote:

As a reminder, the Sino-Soviet split occurred due to an ideological fracture in the Communist bloc whereby Mao accused the Soviets of being “revisionists” after Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization and his embrace of “peaceful coexistence” with the West.

Now that the ex-Soviet countries are pretty much all capitalist oligarchies and China is, well whatever it is but hugely successful and prosperous, is there a consensus about the Sino-Soviet split? I mean yea it sucks that it had to go down like that but can we say in general that Mao was right about that?

I know it's just an arbitrary point in time (as now) and that there were and are loads of factors at play so this is perhaps a simplistic way of framing it, but I'd love to get your thoughts on the matter. Every time I ask something of the dope-ass bear I'm blown away not just by how little I know but also that I wasn't even looking in the right direction, so if this is a stupid question I'm sure you'll let me know, lol.

EDIT: Thank you very much for your answers! Very informative.

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[–] KoloradoKoolAid75@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1. 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China

2. PLA officers with West-German Bundeswehr staff

3. Vietnamese POVs during the Vietnamese-Chinese border war

4. Khmer Rouge killing fields

5. Afghan counterrevolutionary firing a Chinese-made Type 69 RPG

6. UNITA proxy forces of the SADF

there are many other examples for which I have no good photos like the support for people like Pinochet, Siad Barre during the Ogaden war and the nicaraguan contras.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. Do I understand correctly that your point is that China supported anti-communist forces?

[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

yes. also just generally doing everything in their power to aid us interests and work towards the collapse of the ussr, not to speak about just how morally repugnant those factions they aided were. the other side of the sino-soviet split, while of course not entirely free of mistakes, never did shit like this.

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

1 is maybe Nixon or Kissinger and Zhou or Mao 'opening up' China to the West?

2 is Chinese troops with West Germans.

3 I think Sino-Vietnam war - appears to be Chinese troops with Vietnamese PoWs.

4 is the Cambodian killing fields - Deng supported the Khmer Rouge.

5 looks like Afghanistan and 6 maybe some African civil war that China aligned wrongly on?

Overall just examples of bad Chinese foreign policy during the Cold War.