No Sino-Soviet Split

ar-pharazon

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So the Sino Soviet split was a massively important geopolitical event in the late 20th century and allowed the US to peel the Chinese off.

What if the Soviets and Chinese had still remained close? Maybe Mao is less disrespectful to Stalin. Maybe Stalin is more reasonable. I dunno.

But how would a China developing and with a nuclear deterrent still in the soviet sphere go?

How would this affect the history of the Soviet Union and the Cold War?

How would a WW3 in the eighties or seventies go if the Chinese were guaranteed Soviet allies?
 
So the Sino Soviet split was a massively important geopolitical event in the late 20th century and allowed the US to peel the Chinese off.

What if the Soviets and Chinese had still remained close? Maybe Mao is less disrespectful to Stalin. Maybe Stalin is more reasonable. I dunno.

But how would a China developing and with a nuclear deterrent still in the soviet sphere go?

How would this affect the history of the Soviet Union and the Cold War?

How would a WW3 in the eighties or seventies go if the Chinese were guaranteed Soviet allies?

My understanding is that the bigger issue is Khrushchev. Mao was essentially a Stalinist in ideology.

As to a wwiii, South Korea gets overrun pretty quickly and the Soviet fleet in the Far East has a bunch of hiding places. After that I think it depends on how you want to play with it.
 
My understanding is that the bigger issue is Khrushchev. Mao was essentially a Stalinist in ideology.

Yeah, it's kinda confusing. When you read the history, especially about the buildup to the Korean War, Mao and Stalin didn't really seem to have gotten along well at all, with Stalin mortified that the Chinese had made peasants into the revolutionary class. And the Great Leap Forward was(I believe) an attempt to move away from Stalinist style techniques.

But then, it was the anti-Stalin policies of Khruschev that were apparently the last straw for Mao.

Though I seem to recall reading somewhere that Mao said "Stalin was 70% good, 30% bad", so I guess at the end of the day, he came down in the stalinist camp.
 
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