Khrushchev called Mao the 'Asian Hitler'.
In 1958, the USSR withdrew its technical advisers from PRC.
Russia had been the 1st country to go through a successful Communist revolution.
Russia had benefited in the 19th century when China had to sign unequal treaties with Western powers.
Border disputes continued during the 1960s-70s, sometimes turning violent.
On his first visit to Moscow in 1950, Mao was treated poorly by Stalin.
Mao and Stalin had different interpretations of Marxism.
Mao adapted Marxism to fit the Chinese situation and didn’t believe that PRC could follow the same path as other countries.
Mao hadn’t been informed about Stalin’s motives over Korea.
The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance & Mutual Assistance did not mean that PRC was given free aid.
Mao remarked that PRC had to pay ‘down to the last rifle and bullet’ for the Soviet supplies it had received during the Korean War.
PRC could claim that it played a major role for international communism in the Korean War.
Commitment to Lysenkoism had led to the Great Famine.
Khrushchev denounced the cult of Stalin.
Mao threatened to invade Taiwan in 1958 without consulting Moscow, bombarding some of the islands on Taiwan’s east coast.
USSR refused to give PRC any support to attack Taiwan.
USSR dismissed the Great Leap as a huge mistake.
Brezhnev didn’t make much effort to improve Sino-Soviet relations.
Mao deliberately held discussions with Khrushchev at his private pool in 1958, knowing that Khrushchev couldn’t swim.
After Moscow withdrew its aid from Albania, Chia
The USA and USSR entered a period of détente from the 1970s onwards.
During the 1962 Sino-Indian War, USSR gave MIG fighters to India.
Mao felt that de-Stalinisation led to greater freedom in the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe.
When Albania refused to follow dictation from Moscow, PRC gave aid and assistance to Albania.
PRC criticised USSR for its failure in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
PRC viewed the policy of co-existence (the idea that USSR could accept opposing ideologies to exist) as a betrayal of the communist revolution.
USSR denounced the Cultural Revolution as an example of the PRC’s raging fanaticism.
USSR was only willing to give the PRC assistance in its nuclear programme in exchange for some control over China’s defence/foreign policy.
In 1964, the PRC detonated its first atom bomb.
The PRC detonated its first hydrogen bomb in 1967.
