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Well, one of the reasons for the split was because the USSR started persuing a policy of "peaceful coexistence" with the West, and the PRC feared becoming diplomatically isolated. Ironically, the PRC sort of came around on "peaceful coexistence" eventually and then the Soviets were the odd one out. But I can imagine people in China asking, "How on earth did the USSR come to the conclusion that undermining communist hardliners was more important than opposing global capital?"
Imo a lot of it was driven by internal power struggles on both sides. Divisive rhetoric became a way to demonstrate loyalty to the faction in power, and things just kept escalating. It was all a big mess.
The USSR kept strongly advising the Communists cooperate with the KMT against the Japanese. Which makes sense in a "deal with the greater threat first" way. Except that the KMT kept killing the Communists over and over again and could never actually be relied on. I think stuff like that bred some resentment toward the USSR who didn't seem to understand the reality of what was happening in the ground or the different conditions that existed in China. They started to sound like every other country that had ordered China around to their own detriment.
Makes sense