WI Molotov flees to China?

After Kkhrushchev's destalinisation, Molotov was sidelined, he lived his life in isolation and became a critc of Soviet "revisionism", what if he fled to China alongside other Stalinists, would this have any effect on the Cold War.
 
He'd be a propaganda element most likely, and if any other Stalinists did so, they would too. The thing is, I don't know how far their commitment to the PRC would go, since many of the Stalinists were also staunch Soviet nationalists.

Come the Cultural Revolution, he faces a great danger at being targeted too, even if he doesn't crusade against the revisionists of the Soviet Union. Providing he doesn't help the Maoists, he just lives out the rest of his life like he did OTL.

It should be important to note his indifference to nuclear war, but that would have no bearing on a possible Sino-Soviet conflict, as he would never betray his homeland that much. Perhaps even when negotiations regarding the border conflicts come, he becomes a negotiating player, maybe working with his old comrade Alexei Kosygin. Even then, I doubt the Maoists would let two Russians do their talking.
 

Wolfpaw

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While Molotov did trumpet the PRC as the only Communist country that still possessed its "revolutionary spirit" and didn't march to Khrushchev's drum, I have a hard time seeing him leave the USSR.

If he somehow did make it out of the country, he'd probably be used for occasional propaganda points at diplomatic conferences or a photograph or something, but other than that he'd probably live an otherwise quiet life in a lower upper-class apartment somewhere in Beijing.
 
I imagined him being the at the russian service of Radio Beijing, making anti-Khrushchev propaganda.
And probably creating a sham "anti-revisionist CPSU" like
Kazimierz Mijal did in Albania.

The question is will he ever become disappointed with China and try to return to the USSR, or if relations between China and the USSR warm up will the USSR try to have him extradited?
 
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