The Sino Soviet Split: Explained

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    The Sino-Soviet Split was an important point in the Cold War whereby China and the USSR accused each other of being completely fake Communists. Thus they both threw a bit of a fit and refused to talk to each other anymore until the USSR died. Does anyone even read these?
    Sources:
    The Role of Foreign Affairs in the Fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964 by Paul Du Quenoy
    Mao and China's Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s: A New Look at the Taiwan Strait Crises and the Sino-Soviet Split by Michael M. Sheng
    Competing for Leadership: Split or Détente in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, 1959-1961 by Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia

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  • @peffiSC2source
    @peffiSC2source 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8892

    Love how after Khrushchevs arrival, Stalins picture in the Kremlin turns into a cob of corn.

    • @Jame5man
      @Jame5man 5 ปีที่แล้ว +737

      Pretty much sums up destalinisation

    • @19MAD95
      @19MAD95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +356

      Ohhh that explains what that drawing was, but I don’t understand why Corn on the cob was chosen

    • @SloveneAnon
      @SloveneAnon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +909

      Khrushchev had a well known fetish for corn. "Socialism can't be built on American wheat" as he said.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +602

      @@SloveneAnon Ironically corn originated in the Americas.

    • @JonSnowize
      @JonSnowize 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      C O R N L O R D

  • @rileyh520
    @rileyh520 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3345

    Not even gonna mention how Mao, knowing Khrushchev couldn't swim, made him meet in Mao's pool room and basically made the Soviet leader doggy paddle and struggle to stay above water

    • @scamanmagiccarp1932
      @scamanmagiccarp1932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +364

      wait that really happen??!!! jeez that's both questionable but funny

    • @virgiljianu7166
      @virgiljianu7166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +563

      @@scamanmagiccarp1932 Yes, he did it in revenge because he wasn't allowed to see Stalin on one of his birthdays, I think (can't remember which one). From what I read about the meeting, it was basically just Mao swimming in laps while Khrushchev was sitting knee deep in water with a ,,fuck me' face.

    • @可爱包-c4v
      @可爱包-c4v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      Khrushchev wanted to build a monument in China to commemorate Russian generals in the Russo Japanese war. The Russo Japanese war is a war between Russia and Japan in China. Mao was aware of the yellow race. He felt very uncomfortable, so he thought of a way to bully Khrushchev.

    • @Zraknul
      @Zraknul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@可爱包-c4v also why would China want a monument to utter incompetence built there?

    • @louleetah
      @louleetah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Mao x Khruschev

  • @Zevzs727
    @Zevzs727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3754

    2:11 I love how Peoples is just stamped on the Republic of china

    • @77777Spooky
      @77777Spooky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

    • @minedor
      @minedor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      Zevzs it’s because the PRC replaced Taiwan (Formally known as the republic of China) in the UN Security Council in 1973

    • @LLLLLLEON216
      @LLLLLLEON216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Minedor if you look at their passports they are still The Republic of China

    • @cudanmang_theog
      @cudanmang_theog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      China is heading toward a capitalistic ethno-fascism confusiciusm state like Mussolini.

    • @cudanmang_theog
      @cudanmang_theog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Han supremarcists, chinese ultranationalists

  • @peteranderson037
    @peteranderson037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1439

    Fun fact: the Fleetwood Mac song "Go Your Own Way" was not actually about Lindsey Buckingham's break up with Stevie Nicks, but actually about the Sino-Soviet split.

  • @GTgaming69
    @GTgaming69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4308

    Kruschev: *tries to avoid nuclear war with the US*
    Mao: “aight imma head out”

    • @Ismavolt
      @Ismavolt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      He also kinda fucked the economy.
      Not that Mao was any better.

    • @michaelinsomanywords3647
      @michaelinsomanywords3647 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      loser

    • @POCLEE
      @POCLEE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +386

      “I’m not afraid of nuclear war. There are 2.7 billion people in the world; it doesn’t matter if some are killed. China has a population of 600 million; even if half of them are killed, there are still 300 million people left.” - Mao

    • @KOIFishcat
      @KOIFishcat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@POCLEE fucking idiot

    • @KOIFishcat
      @KOIFishcat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@gabriel.b9036 thanks! This is actually what I always thought.

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7247

    Meanwhile, Mongolia was sweating profusely.

    • @suomi5475
      @suomi5475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +383

      🇷🇺: \/ _\/
      🇲🇳: O___O
      🇨🇳: /\ v/\

    • @geraldclydeabella3350
      @geraldclydeabella3350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @CharlieRobloxKerbal Sukhbaatar

    • @roxylius7550
      @roxylius7550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      @Jin Bin Ong well, mongolia was already invaded and occupied by Qing dynasty for several hundreds year

    • @ipodtouch495
      @ipodtouch495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      *Mongolia when it sees the two nuclear armed regional powers on its northern and southern borders goading each other*

    • @sedukai5924
      @sedukai5924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      It was a Soviet satellite

  • @ProtoMario
    @ProtoMario 4 ปีที่แล้ว +758

    Change stuff
    No.

  • @cooperrush6474
    @cooperrush6474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +656

    3:05 The Sino-Soviet Split absolutely did affect China to a significant degree. Khrushchev pulled all technical advisers out of the country and the complete lack of trade that followed stunted China's development for two decades. Furthermore it's arguable whether the catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward would've even happened if there was no split.

    • @可爱包-c4v
      @可爱包-c4v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Thank you. In fact, Khrushchev has been paying attention to China and the Soviets have tried to give advice. These things are recorded in Khrushchev's memoirs. This is mainly caused by China's nationality and the whole external environment. There were many student movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Chinese scholar Wen Tiejun believes that this is because China can not solve the employment problem of students, and the world market is not mature, and the employment of workers and farmers is also a problem. Due to the characteristics of Chinese character, this problem has a great impact in China. This problem was finally solved by Deng Xiaoping in the 1990s. Now China is trying to develop Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia because it is afraid that the world market can not meet China's employment needs. In the Mao era, Mao put forward this strategy. China should unite all poor countries to make progress together, but Mao could not achieve this goal.(谢谢你,事实上赫鲁晓夫一直关注着中国,苏联人也试图给意见,这些事被纪录在赫鲁晓夫回忆录中。这主要是中国的民族性和整个外部环境造成的,在上世界60-70年代,学生运动非常多。中国学者温铁军认为,这是由于中国解决不了学生的就业问题,以及世界市场并不成熟,工人和农民的就业也是个问题。由于中国性格特点,导致这个问题在中国的影响非常巨大。这个问题最终由邓小平在1990年代解决。现在中国努力发展非洲和拉丁美洲以及东南亚,就是害怕世界市场无法满足中国的就业需求。在毛时代,毛就提出了这个战略,中国应该联合所有穷国,一起进步,但是毛无法完成这个目标。)

    • @LuccianoBartolini
      @LuccianoBartolini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@可爱包-c4v Latin American here, instead of developing, it's just colonialism by selling us cheap products while keeping the corrupt politicians in power.

    • @sophisticatedthumb5364
      @sophisticatedthumb5364 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LuccianoBartolini Ah yes selling plastic toys=colonialism
      I bet you think the US helped free latin America

    • @LuccianoBartolini
      @LuccianoBartolini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sophisticatedthumb5364 XD
      Try more "cheap cellphones, bridges, busses, constructions" among many more.
      If you want to make a good "gotcha" argument, at least put some effort beyond a straw man that's irrelevant to the main argument.

    • @sophisticatedthumb5364
      @sophisticatedthumb5364 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@LuccianoBartolini Yeah I can tell you clearly enjoy military coups and economic sanctions more. No wonder latin America remains poor till this day

  • @ilnur9973
    @ilnur9973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2727

    The Sino-Soviet relations be like
    ***THUMP***

    • @allanjbucknol4414
      @allanjbucknol4414 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @fromthewreckage
      @fromthewreckage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      They came down with a bad case.....of death. *thump*

    • @cudanmang_theog
      @cudanmang_theog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Today there no actual communist or socialist country in the world, expect Cuba.

    • @sebastiantetsuya6879
      @sebastiantetsuya6879 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@cudanmang_theog *I agree this*

    • @deezeed2817
      @deezeed2817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My mother was of partial Russian descent and they allowed my father to carry a weapon but not her but they wanted her to spy on the Russian community in China. When my grandmother heard this she was pissed off. So when they say that these socialist countries didn’t have racism then I can tell you that’s not true.

  • @explosivefiend9008
    @explosivefiend9008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2017

    I have always wanted to know why Yugoslavia split from the Eastern block after WW2

    • @klm2639
      @klm2639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +736

      Tito got rid of the Nazis on his own, so by 1945 there weren't any Red Army units in Yugoslavia and that was key in not being a Soviet puppet. So Yugoslavia was always part of the eastern block just never direct Moscow control, same with Albania

    • @kalyka98
      @kalyka98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      Because you either obey stalin or become his enemy

    • @juanmfernandez5123
      @juanmfernandez5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Yugoslavia was neutral in the cold war, and they hate stalin

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide 5 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Tito had multiple assassination attempts against him which failed.

    • @explosivefiend9008
      @explosivefiend9008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Thanks lads for answering my question it is much appreciated

  • @SleepySheepy99
    @SleepySheepy99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +628

    2:25 Ah yes the great Soviet leader
    Corn

    • @ricojes
      @ricojes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Yes Corn-rade!

    • @hutarhutar3200
      @hutarhutar3200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@ricojes i see you are not a wheatling, you upheld the communist oats

    • @pofromteletubbies1243
      @pofromteletubbies1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah such a great leader

    • @christopher5846
      @christopher5846 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @S.C.H.D_ I didn't

    • @alexcrazy1492
      @alexcrazy1492 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ricojes🕶️🌽

  • @theKeshaWarrior
    @theKeshaWarrior 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1203

    The split is probably the reason China has survived because unlike most other Communist countries, it didn't need huge amounts of foreign aid from the USSR to function.

    • @lmao.3661
      @lmao.3661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      They also love capitalism

    • @Chadmeleon
      @Chadmeleon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @brandon you are wrong on every level

    • @superduperfreakyDj
      @superduperfreakyDj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @brandon That is just like a childlike understanding of politics and history mate

    • @superduperfreakyDj
      @superduperfreakyDj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @brandon smooth brain

    • @fallout560
      @fallout560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @brandon let me guess, you complain about chinese tourists while saying it's a slave nation?

  • @itaybron
    @itaybron 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4578

    China: we're the real communists around here
    Also China: *proceeds to be the main manufacturer for capitalist countries"
    Ghost of Marx: wait, that's illegal!

    • @Omegan101
      @Omegan101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +283

      Without the USSR to challenge them, and Socialism in the West having no centralizing or commanding voice whatsoever, China is in a position to claim what it likes really.

    • @blackgold754
      @blackgold754 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      They still have a communist party

    • @rebecca4680
      @rebecca4680 5 ปีที่แล้ว +404

      DJ Grandpa . A “communist” party. It may be named communist, but it damn sure isn’t in reality.

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      They saw how sticking to the book (i.e centralized controlled economy) and then going to a newer system instantly (perestroika and glasnost) is a killer. PRChina tried to keep on the Maoist track with the Gang of Four but Deng sees the realpolitik need to "reform". This is just the CCP trying to maintain power in a post Cold War world...

    • @华夏蒲公英
      @华夏蒲公英 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@Omegan101 China is not interested in anything, only interested in development, development and development. . . .

  • @Armorius2199
    @Armorius2199 5 ปีที่แล้ว +872

    When are you going to release the Orthodox view on Protestantism?

    • @issacarellano9909
      @issacarellano9909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Argyrus 47 been wondering about that for awhile

    • @sodinc
      @sodinc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      As an orthodox i think that this question was long awaited by absolutely everybody.

    • @randomalien7746
      @randomalien7746 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@aver_nestress4570 Catholics are extremely conservative as a religion and protestantism allows more freedom. If we're talking about history then Catholics used to pay to the church for their sins which is absolutely retarded.

    • @thayff2401
      @thayff2401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I don't think there are many people here in Russia who even know's what is Protestantism. In fact our "orthodox" people don't care about religion at all, most of them openly hates patriarch and church, I even heard that like 30% of people that claimed to be orthodox said that they don't believe in god

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@randomalien7746 orthodoxies are even more conservative hen Catholics lol, even the word orthodox itself literally means conservative

  • @April_a26
    @April_a26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1462

    Last time I was this early mao was forcing me to make steel in my backyard

    • @ayindephulgence4950
      @ayindephulgence4950 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      you must produce steel

    • @April_a26
      @April_a26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      @@ayindephulgence4950 not again

    • @worsethanjoerogan8061
      @worsethanjoerogan8061 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Mao proved it was possible to produce negative economic output. He set everyone to making steel with no equipment or training, they produce pig iron instead that had to be resmelted before it could be made into something useful.

    • @ayindephulgence4950
      @ayindephulgence4950 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Jay Blake they do not wish to know the fact comrade

    • @TPerm-hj4sf
      @TPerm-hj4sf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I got a steel rod available for all beautiful communist ladies.

  • @nikolaytsankov9066
    @nikolaytsankov9066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +752

    Last time I was this early
    I was running away from the KGB

    • @WilliamDiep
      @WilliamDiep 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      U r rly funny congrats

    • @makeromaniagreatagain9697
      @makeromaniagreatagain9697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Last time I was this early, I war running from the Red Guard

    • @utku1441
      @utku1441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nikolay Tsankov in soviet russia there won’t be a next time if you are running away from the KGB

    • @acebalistic1358
      @acebalistic1358 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Last time I was this early these videos were 10 minutes long

    • @ahmedshaharyarejaz9886
      @ahmedshaharyarejaz9886 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Keep running my man. The KGB may be dead but its operatives are still out there.

  • @dsong2006
    @dsong2006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    China aside from being Albanians closest strategic ally was closer to both Romania and Yugoslavia then to the USSR. This was important detail that was missed. Also China going to war with the US was Stalin's idea which also put distance between the two powers. Stalin event suggested having a unified Soviet controlled fleet in the Pacific based in Dalian, which was unacceptable to Mao. The Soviets also briefly supported the East Turkestan Republic and tried to stop the Chinese Civil War at the Yangtze River creating a North/South China. When Mao saw the Soviets starting to encroach on Chinese sovereity that's when the split started.

    • @guoxiutang7569
      @guoxiutang7569 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The USSR has never been a great ally to China. All it want is power and more lands.

    • @polpot247
      @polpot247 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      你是正确的

    • @youkik3248
      @youkik3248 หลายเดือนก่อน

      right

  • @CT--gs1wj
    @CT--gs1wj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +894

    China: “how dare USSR send tanks to crush the Hungarian revolution, its not the communist way...”
    Also China: “student protesters in Tiananmen Square?! Send all available Tank at once!”

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Ilyass Abbad
      China never had overpriced tuition fees, dumbfuck

    • @1.3mviews64
      @1.3mviews64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @Ilyass Abbad you two both as dumb fucks lol

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Ilyass Abbad wheres the punchline? don't hide your stupidity by saying "its a joke"

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Ilyass Abbad first of all, no.. and second of all, you're the stupid one for making such a shitty joke, deal with it.

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Ilyass Abbad content cop? your "joke" is rubbish, get over it

  • @pwgearedturbofan2348
    @pwgearedturbofan2348 5 ปีที่แล้ว +695

    "Ideological differences are a matter of life and death for Communists."
    Lol, this continues to today in online communist discussions. Pretty much every flavor of communism hates every other flavor of communism. If you want a good chance of enraging certain communists, just call Trotsky a hero, lol. That makes Stalinists angry.

    • @pedrosantos6183
      @pedrosantos6183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Trotsky was a fucking cunt.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      Case in point above me.

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      you mean like How AOC hates Bernie now.

    • @JayJay-fl1su
      @JayJay-fl1su 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      I don’t get how people can love Stalin

    • @facelessjoe455
      @facelessjoe455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@JayJay-fl1su same

  • @sidharthakumar8563
    @sidharthakumar8563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    "Ideological purity is a matter of life or death for Communism"..truer words have never been spoken.

    • @dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002
      @dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We see that often how to maintain their ideological purity, millions are butchered by them.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And this is why it fails miserably (well one of the reasons, the main one is that it doesn’t work)

    • @lincw920
      @lincw920 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002 well not anymore, at least in PRC, I see loads of capitalism and neo-liberalism supporters on domestic video platforms and not even being censored, these people sometimes bug me, really

    • @ordavis
      @ordavis 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're right, revisionists have historically helped or accelerated the destruction of socialist projects, rooting them out is a matter of life or death.

  • @igloo2962
    @igloo2962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Please make a video on the famous History Matters-Ten Minute History split.

  • @punishedvenomsnake716
    @punishedvenomsnake716 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    I wrote my high school history thesis on this! Fascinating stuff. It was mostly ideological stuff but they still had strong ties together obviously

    • @Whydoyoureadme
      @Whydoyoureadme 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A thesis in high school? What weed is your teaching staff smoking, lmao.

    • @thatwolfensteinguy8954
      @thatwolfensteinguy8954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @transylvanian ok right, as a Communist myself I do respect you l, but let's see the numbers, ahh yes, Stalin killed 20 Million, Mau almost 70 Million. Their was nothing Communist about Stalin's Iron U.S.S.R or Mau's China. They were both dictators who killed millions, honestly . Marx would be turning in his grave if he saw what Modern "Communists".....I mean Facist Dictators have done.

    • @SteventheOrigin
      @SteventheOrigin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thatwolfensteinguy8954 30 million*

    • @thatone846
      @thatone846 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thatwolfensteinguy8954 Bro really said "It wasn't real communism!"

  • @klm2639
    @klm2639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    This video didn't go into how the Sino Soviet split affected foreign policy specifically in Africa and the fight against decolonisation. The Mozambican Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush War and Angolan civil War, Vietnam and Cambodia too.

    • @glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917
      @glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think the PRC was also involved in Afghanistan somehow

    • @MrAnonymousRandom
      @MrAnonymousRandom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917 Other than selling the CIA some arms it could transfer over to the Islamic fundamentalists, I haven't heard of Chinese involvement.

    • @mxn1948
      @mxn1948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@MrAnonymousRandom it sold a lot of arms to the CIA who then transfer it through Pakistan to Afghanistan. There was also reports of Chinese "advisors" in Afghanistan though not great in numbers

    • @andrewsitu5107
      @andrewsitu5107 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So China helped the Taliban?

    • @klm2639
      @klm2639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@andrewsitu5107 nope Taliban was purely America's baby. Remember Charlie Wilson's War? I believe Tom Hanks even won an Oscar for that role

  • @blessingsogbetun7007
    @blessingsogbetun7007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Soviet union:come on we can talk about this
    China: im sorry it's not me it's you

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 ปีที่แล้ว +680

    Back then we supported the USSR but now we support China

    • @lawjef
      @lawjef 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Kim Jong-un by “support” you mean they support you, right? Because apart from being a geographic buffer with the West, none of those communist nations need you at all. Some uncharitable folks might even say that you make their diplomatic relations unnecessarily complex

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nuh...

    • @Hdusiekwbshsjs
      @Hdusiekwbshsjs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      You weren’t born and my country is better

    • @glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917
      @glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wait wasn't the DPRK historically more allied to the PRC than the USSR?

    • @punishedvenomsnake716
      @punishedvenomsnake716 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Hdusiekwbshsjs
      Fuck you and the Khmer Rouge. Fuckin CIA mass murderer

  • @recursor9469
    @recursor9469 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    It's always been interesting to me that the Sino Split occurred because China thought the USSR's communist reforms were too soft, yet the reason why China ultimately remained as the last major Communist power is because of its own liberalizing reforms.

    • @elevatedmeance6807
      @elevatedmeance6807 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @ahogammer6895 not in the right ways, and by the time they did it was too late

    • @lincw920
      @lincw920 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ahogammer6895 you mean collapsed

    • @sleefy2343
      @sleefy2343 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They aren’t communist anymore lol

    • @ordavis
      @ordavis 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You have no idea what you are talking about 👍

    • @lincw920
      @lincw920 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ordavis 你就有了是吧

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    Next time:
    *Soviet - Finnish Relations (post 1945)*

    • @tommyturner7086
      @tommyturner7086 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Interesting

    • @RyoKasai25
      @RyoKasai25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm curious, do finnish people make a Vietnam and laugh at the russians for their failed invasion, or they just don't care.

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @RyoKasai25 ??? It’s never (well, rarely) the Vietnamese that laugh at Americans for the failed invasion, it’s the rest of the world.

    • @jokuvaan5175
      @jokuvaan5175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@RyoKasai25 Yes. Finnish kids online love to inform Russians how "we beat you beat you in the winter war". It's to the patriotics and nationalists similiar to what beating Nazi Germany is to Russians. A reason for pride. David vs. Goliath known. And WW2 is the only war the independent Finland has been at war with other nations so there aren't really other major war things to pround of.

    • @Feffdc
      @Feffdc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They had excellent relations with Ussr.They even got the Mig21 first even before some members of the warsaw pact

  • @asj8048
    @asj8048 5 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    The first History Matters character to die must have been like:
    o.o
    -.-
    *thump*

    • @andreimoga7813
      @andreimoga7813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      More like
      ○_○
      *thump*
      no mid panel for this channel

    • @HVLLOWS1999
      @HVLLOWS1999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That would be King Louise XV of France 1774. His first video

  • @lc9245
    @lc9245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Didn’t mention the most impactful consequence of the split. After the Vietnam War, Laos and Cambodia, all were under communist regimes. Because all of them are grassroots movements, their allegiance also split between the Soviets and Chinese, particularly the Vietnamese favours the former while the Khmer Rouge, the latter. You don’t often hear about Khmer Rouge, especially at the time, which is astounding considering Khmer Rouge killed 1/3 of its country population, the most percentage wise of all communist regimes. You would think American propagandists would jump all over the story, but that’s not what happened. The US, at the time wanted to get closer to China. They ended up keeping quiet over the entire ordeal. What was publicised was the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. It started with border clashes with the Khmer Rouge, backed by Deng Xiaoping at the time, made several incursions into Vietnam, in the name of reclaiming their ancestral land. The Vietnamese responded by invading Cambodia and deposing Khmer Rouge, out of overconfidence and probably lack of awareness about the political situation in the Union at the time. The Vietnamese were hoping the Soviet would keep China in check, but what ended up happened was the Chinese army invaded Vietnam from its Southern border, crushing some Vietnamese divisions while incurring few losses. The Vietnamese, rightfully, faced political pressure from the entire world and had to withdraw from Cambodia, handing power over to Hun Sen, whom they installed and made a deal with the Cambodian loyal family which last until this day. The Sino-Soviet split caused a few millions Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese death. In a classic example of real politics, representing Cambodia in the UN until the 90s were the Khmer Rouge representatives, because they are backed by China. The entire world condoned and supported a communist regime that killed 2 millions Cambodian, because of China’s backing. It’s even more remarkable when you consider that America aided the Khmer Rouge while they fight against the Vietnamese installed government of Hun Sen, refusing to call the killing of 2 millions Cambodian, genocide. I think this sets the tone for our upcoming China dominated century where things that involves China, but let’s hope that I am wrong.

    • @thecandlemaker1329
      @thecandlemaker1329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Britain appeased Hitler hoping that he would turn on Russia. Look how that turned out.
      USA appeased Mao hoping that he would turn on Russia as well.
      The Anglo-Saxon russophobia will be their tombstone in the end.

    • @lalehiandeity1649
      @lalehiandeity1649 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@rylencason4420 You haven’t studied up on actual Marxist economic theory, clearly. You can see how unchecked capitalism in America has resulted in increasing wealth gaps, tired infrastructure, etc. China is only using capitalism as a stepping stone to true communism.

    • @fgfgdgdfgdfgiidfgdfgdfgdfgdfgd
      @fgfgdgdfgdfgiidfgdfgdfgdfgdfgd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@rylencason4420 lol they practically lost ever war game in china. and the economic and demographic issue is also an issue in US as well

    • @nicanornunez9787
      @nicanornunez9787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wasn't Kissinger in Cambodia while everything was happening, wasn't he on the helicopters while the KR was busting everyone with glasses for being a nerd.

    • @fabiandonvil
      @fabiandonvil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      there is one major reason why china will not dominate the next decades. population. i'm pretty sure everyone knows that china has had 1-child per couple policy for 30-odd years by now. as you know 1 kid is not enough to replace 2 parents. 30 years is almost 2 generations with only 1 kid. china's population is expected to HALVE in the next century. even if the communists found a way to rocket up the birth rate, this will still happen. population crises come slowly and impact slowly. the damage has been done. as the elderly population explodes, the CCP will need to take care of them, completely tanking their economy if the population/labor shortage doesn't do it. in addition this will also mean their military will downsize significantly in the coming decades. if china wants any shot at world domination -however small the chance- it needs to do so NOW, before they lose their only major military advantage on the US: huge population.

  • @Kawaiijapanlover
    @Kawaiijapanlover 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I love how you guys use humor in your videos, it makes them so much more fun (and funny) to watch!
    Good work!

  • @goosebumps212
    @goosebumps212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    After 14 years of TH-cam I can easily state (as a history buff) that this is the best channel of the platform !

  • @RedXlV
    @RedXlV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    So ironic that the split began because of Mao thinking Khrushchev was too conciliatory to the West. And then later on, Mao turned around and sided with the West against the USSR.

  • @genr-j2d
    @genr-j2d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    We don’t talk about this, comrade

    • @mariano98ify
      @mariano98ify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sure comrade Ivanovich, we shall sent him to the gulag!!!

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @all the princesses men That's a death sentence!

    • @maozedong7536
      @maozedong7536 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I agree

    • @andreimoga7813
      @andreimoga7813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Something tells me we won't see any videos for quite a while...

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      We don't talk about Jewish banks in China either.

  • @dracotitanfall
    @dracotitanfall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    1:40 Mao wasn't exporting grain during a drought because he wanted to look rich, it was because he and the rest of the central government didn't know it was happening at all. This was due to the government system where regional managers were supposed to be completely responsible for any problems of their region, and thus avoided telling the issue of the drought and consequent famine to Mao and the party leaders to avoid being reprimanded.

    • @Steven-uk2fz
      @Steven-uk2fz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What a dumbass lmao. Some people idolise this guy btw

    • @victorwong2875
      @victorwong2875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your rhetoric stinks. Bad guys are the ministers, the emperor is good.

    • @TheIT221
      @TheIT221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well he did have a Shanghai speech where he talked about the famine, and (from what I know) second in command talked of a man made humanitarian disaster

    • @guoxiutang7569
      @guoxiutang7569 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is he right doing so? Absolute no-no. But he did good stuff to Chinese people so still is a beloved leader.

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@guoxiutang7569
      50 million deaths with the great leap forward and the cultural revolution but still a great leader?

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    We talked about this as a topic in a Model UN communist committee. I was the only one besides China that was pro-China. The guy for Albania was out and we barely had time for the topic so I was China's ally. I was Romania

  • @danieldeburgh8437
    @danieldeburgh8437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is the best Channel. You actually make videos about stuff I want to know, and not what I already know like every other channel seems to do.

  • @adamcieslik1985
    @adamcieslik1985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    There's a little mistake in the 1st map in 00:01 - USSR has Kazachstan and kaukasus states which is not included in this map

    • @erwinschliemann7482
      @erwinschliemann7482 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Adam Cieślik It may be including only European SSR's, which would kind of make sense given what the map is showing.

    • @floringrigore129
      @floringrigore129 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also , all maps present Kuril Islands as Japanese , not Soviet

    • @KizanTM
      @KizanTM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Erwin Schliemann then why isn’t Azerbaijan! Armenia and Georgia part of the nap?

    • @KraljNikola-fu2tu
      @KraljNikola-fu2tu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why is Yugoslavia in the eastern bloc

    • @bootmii98
      @bootmii98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@floringrigore129 after WWII that'd be inexcusable, at least for the northern half.

  • @soyusmaximus7176
    @soyusmaximus7176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I'd love a video on Anglo-Franco-American relations throughout the Cold War. That was some interesting stuff.

  • @jacobcarignan1
    @jacobcarignan1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The PRC is the quiet kid who gets overshadowed by their cooler sibling/friend, but who ends up way more successful later

  • @FerrariKing
    @FerrariKing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    These short videos are very informative and nicely put together.

  • @silence6605
    @silence6605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Chinese going their own way - CGTOW

    • @Marylandbrony
      @Marylandbrony 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Involuntarily expelled from the Soviet Bloc: Ineftsb's

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The Chad Karl Marx vs. the Virgin Mao Zedong

    • @JollyOldCanuck
      @JollyOldCanuck 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@merrittanimation7721 Karl Marx was German.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JollyOldCanuck The joke is that Karl Marx is the ultimate communist. His nationality doesn't matter.

    • @JollyOldCanuck
      @JollyOldCanuck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@merrittanimation7721 I'd argue that Rosseau, who most likely inspired Karl Marx, was the ultimate communist. That man attributed all the world's evils to private property.

  • @leonleon2021
    @leonleon2021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:11 I love there's a stick note adding "People's" on China's seat XD

  • @FirstnameLastname-qe3ry
    @FirstnameLastname-qe3ry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Mongolia: *sweats nervously*

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its amazing how the ancestors of Ghengis Khan have become so small and peaceful considering their thousands of years of conquest south into China and west until Moscow

    • @EroticOnion23
      @EroticOnion23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dustin628 West till Vienna

    • @hiimryan2388
      @hiimryan2388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dustin628 peaceful... No

  • @RobloxsBest
    @RobloxsBest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    "Mao saw the use of the Red Army in the hungarian revolution as delegitimizing communism" Ironic.

    • @Hungabrigoo
      @Hungabrigoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Communism is a religion of peace... oh wait that doesn't sound right.

    • @ayman_2138
      @ayman_2138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      yea, but mao was dead when the tiananmen square massacre happened.

    • @ayman_2138
      @ayman_2138 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      probably

    • @debaxer
      @debaxer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's because the USSR was doing that in another country.

    • @SamuelRusche
      @SamuelRusche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They never attack other nations....

  • @jonathanbien3685
    @jonathanbien3685 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    You forgot the PRC's border conflict with Vietnam in 1979.

    • @whoboo6780
      @whoboo6780 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Forgot Viet failed invasion in 1988. Vietnam dead - almost 100. China, 0 dead.

    • @poisonousteapot2394
      @poisonousteapot2394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Uvuvwevwevwe Osas didn't Cambodia at the time was ruled by Polpot ?, I mean the Vietnamese invasion may be slightly justified

    • @poisonousteapot2394
      @poisonousteapot2394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Uvuvwevwevwe Osas well err... A united Indochina is better than a divided one ?

    • @poisonousteapot2394
      @poisonousteapot2394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Uvuvwevwevwe Osas yeah I think you're right, while I do think deposing Polpot and unifying Indochina is great, the ends doesn't justify the mean enough now that I think of it.

    • @poisonousteapot2394
      @poisonousteapot2394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Uvuvwevwevwe Osas in a perfect world that would happen, people there are too divide to do so, sad really since if they were united the region might actually see some improvement.

  • @duskpede5146
    @duskpede5146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    2:18 ideological purity was so important that they proceeded to implement none of the economic policies that marx advocated for

  • @abbyalphonse499
    @abbyalphonse499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    1:47 Right, because the PRC certainly didn't do that later...

  • @nb2008nc
    @nb2008nc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    UN general assembly: "Insert Earth here."
    Me: If I do, how do I know you just won't steal it?

  • @6ch6ris6
    @6ch6ris6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Mao holding up a sign saying "make steel" to a farmer is the best summary of the great leap ever

    • @masterdeetectiv9520
      @masterdeetectiv9520 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mao when he realises throwing a bunch of iron ore at peasants who dont know what it is doesnt do anything

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:33 I like the distinctive yellow flash.

  • @icrushchildrensdreams4556
    @icrushchildrensdreams4556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Please make a video about the Taiping Rebellion or the Boxer Rebellion.

  • @daevious_
    @daevious_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    0:34 That's hilariously dark.

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I had no idea that Albania was randomly Maoist but Vietnam Stalinist. Also um, yeah, that explains a lot about Ethiopia's position today

    • @iddomargalit-friedman3897
      @iddomargalit-friedman3897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The leader of albenia was a real nut head, even in communist standarts - and eventually no one was communist enough for him.
      BTW he was sure the west would invade albenia, and fortified the country to a rediculous extent.
      To this day albenia has the most bunkers-per-capita in the world.

    • @redcommierad2447
      @redcommierad2447 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      transylvanian their capitalist part in China is mainly in commercial cities and for foreign businesses. If not many other places are highly socialist in China.

    • @hephaestus9901
      @hephaestus9901 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @transylvanian we have a unique look into the minds of the truly insane

    • @punchdreadnought8101
      @punchdreadnought8101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @VHVD Vietnam prefers nationalism, or similar to pure Marxism.

  • @philips.5563
    @philips.5563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:34 is probably the best reference to atomic weapons ever animated.

  • @AllPileup
    @AllPileup 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:33 I like how there's a *FLASH* behind the emperor

  • @ronaldreagan7772
    @ronaldreagan7772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Mao detested Khrushchev because of his thawing of the cold war. Although he had some minor disagreements with Stalin but he believed Stalin was a good communist unlike Khrushchev

  • @LeoDas688
    @LeoDas688 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    CCP didn't fight the Japanese and let the nationalist handle them,and when Japanese was expelled the nationalist became weak because of the fighting and CCP used this opportunity to defeat them

    • @krichenboi
      @krichenboi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Erm no

    • @krichenboi
      @krichenboi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The ccp was still not strong

    • @K.Pershing
      @K.Pershing 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@krichenboi what the shit sre you talking about

  • @dogeboi1804
    @dogeboi1804 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    *Kruschev and Mao arguing who is the real communist while both not following the communist manifesto written by Karl Marx* Marx:😐

  • @magicstix0r
    @magicstix0r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "What's the difference between Stalinism and Maoism?"
    "About 40 million dead..."

  • @rubenhagen1453
    @rubenhagen1453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:39 he needed to know how much he could put out so ..He calculated his kingdom

  • @siimoraba2043
    @siimoraba2043 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thanks, great video! An idea for a similar one: Sino-Vietnamese relations in 20th century. Appears to me most Westeners think just because the flags and cultures look similar (and "communism"), they must have been great buddies. Very far from the truth though.

    • @可爱包-c4v
      @可爱包-c4v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The contradiction between China and Vietnam mainly lies between countries, not communism. In fact, this is also a big problem. Communist countries are too tight, resulting in very serious national and territorial problems. For example, on the one hand, Khrushchev asked China to erect a monument for the Russian general who invaded China. On the other hand, Khrushchev told China that Russia, not the Soviet Union, invaded China. Compared with other countries, China is not a nation-state, but a communist country, except for Vietnam. For China and Vietnam, they fight every few hundred years.

  • @mariano98ify
    @mariano98ify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:34 Focking love these nuke explosions referenced.

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Stalin had no interest in Asia and so the Chinese Communist had zero support from the Russians. The only faction Stalin supported was the Kuomintang which changed after 1947 when the Communist won the civil war. Mao was a huge fan of Stalin while Stalin personally did not like him. During the 1960s when the Sino-Soviet split happened there was a series of clashes alongside the Russian and Chinese border in which one incident a T-62 (the Soviet's most modern main battle tank) was captured intact by the Chinese and was used for their own tank development. Since the 1990s, China has repaired its relations with Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

    • @fosso8803
      @fosso8803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Stalin didn't like anyone

    • @NortheastIndiaindetails
      @NortheastIndiaindetails 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Stalin is Georgian not russian

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NortheastIndiaindetails *Angry Soviet noises*

    • @Rishi123456789
      @Rishi123456789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NortheastIndiaindetails Stalin was a Russia-loving Georgian.

    • @ohamatchhams
      @ohamatchhams 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rishi123456789 Every tankie are either Russophile, Sinophile or both in denial
      They're just imperialists under different coat of paint and dressings, yet somehow they're ironically being less degenerate than how North Americas and Western Europe entails to be despite of state-atheism bs

  • @FreeBird-ws2ye
    @FreeBird-ws2ye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Beatles: We broke up!
    USSR & China:
    Pangea: Am I a joke to you?

    • @AwankO
      @AwankO 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thumbs down for this tired, overused comment every other TH-cam video

    • @hiimryan2388
      @hiimryan2388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AwankO Ok mr 14 year old edgelord

    • @AwankO
      @AwankO 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hiimryan2388 Maybe my eyes don't read like they used to in my old age 🤔. You made two incorrect assumptions in one stereotypical sentence.... kinda impressive 🥸

  • @Samuel-wm1xr
    @Samuel-wm1xr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You missed out the funny part, Mao allying with Nixon to fight the Soviet Union after condemning the USSR for being too friendly to the US

  • @looinrims
    @looinrims 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “After the time of their (Japan’s) surrender...”
    *Bright flash behind Japanese figure*

  • @bcvetkov8534
    @bcvetkov8534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can the next video be about Communism in Mongolia and Tannu Tuva? Please😁🙏 love your stuff keep up the good work!

  • @shanghainewbison7687
    @shanghainewbison7687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    In Chinese History books, we broke up with USSR because of two reasons. 1) Soviet Union wanted to build a navy base in Dalian, which we denied. 2) USSR wants to build a long wavelength radar in China, which we denied too. The bottom line is that, after a century of humiliation and the Korean war with United States, China wants to be fully independant.

    • @leogao6929
      @leogao6929 ปีที่แล้ว

      China stands against imperialism around the world!

    • @Warsie
      @Warsie ปีที่แล้ว

      wait, you broke up with them because they wanted to build a navy base and a radar in an allied country?

    • @shanghainewbison7687
      @shanghainewbison7687 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Warsie Because we want to be fully independant. Unlike Japan, where US stationed soliders are constantly harrassing locals.

    • @Warsie
      @Warsie ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shanghainewbison7687 I mean the USSR was helping you industrialize though and literally help to protect you against American attacks

    • @leogao6929
      @leogao6929 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Warsie with the expense of giving them unfair privilege? I know soviets wouldn't do that, americans wouldn't do that. why should chinese do that

  • @interesting6436
    @interesting6436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:04 Americans put nukes in Turkey first.

  • @nicksurface3513
    @nicksurface3513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This could have been a bit more detailed. There was some hilarious dialogue between Khrushchev and Mao regarding nuclear technology. Also the tension on the Sino-Soviet border was extreme. War could have easily broken out.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Border tensions in 1969 actually boiled over into open clashes. Brezhnev was so furious with Mao that he was ready to bring out the nukes and strike China preemptively. The only major reason he didn't do it is because Nixon stepped in and warned him against it, saying America had "interests" in the region. Some have said he should have let the Soviets do it, but that would mean 10s of millions of Chinese civilians dying (along with who knows how many Soviet and Mongolian ones).

  • @Neversa
    @Neversa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandpa fought in Zhalanashköl against Chinese in 1968.

  • @kellanjones5591
    @kellanjones5591 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love to have longer videos, I don’t mind if they take weeks, but 10 Minute history is awesome

  • @MarcusHansen276
    @MarcusHansen276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love how Taiwan is in a picture frame in the background

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:37 Well that explains why Albania had some pretty insane policy decisions at the time.

  • @nameisalreadytaken983
    @nameisalreadytaken983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:39 HEY THATS MY COUNTRY!!!!

  • @Holammer
    @Holammer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Khrushchev denouncing Stalin's purges was a major reason behind the split. Chinese were shocked by this.

  • @rnrailproductions5049
    @rnrailproductions5049 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Probably the Saddest divorce in history...

    • @Lugrer3113
      @Lugrer3113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Naaaah fuck them both.

    • @ilikewindows3455
      @ilikewindows3455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Austria Hungary: Am I a joke to you?

    • @Lugrer3113
      @Lugrer3113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ilikewindows3455 As a Croatian I can relate.

    • @ilikewindows3455
      @ilikewindows3455 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @transylvanian "its capitalism and nationalism that exploit, oppress and divide people, deny them freedom and the enjoyment of the fruits of the labor of all humanity."
      Literally every communist country did this. China STILL does this. Capitalism causes problems for others yes. Capitalism exploits, yes. But I mean goddamn at least capitalism doesnt starve you too death and cause mass famines and purges in your own country. Its laughable that you genuinely think communism is good for the world after the results of its practice. Sure because the Soviet union sure was a treat wasnt it? It's really not even a viable system, evident by the fact the PRC is beginning to move towards a more capitalistic focus which mind you is a result of their economic boom.
      But hey if you want to starve to death then by all means, go ahead. You're a waste of valuable oxygen anyways if you'd like to bring about a system that starved millions.

    • @ilikewindows3455
      @ilikewindows3455 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @transylvanian oh goddamnit I fell for it. Touche

  • @DirtMerchant693
    @DirtMerchant693 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m loving these video topics; it’s stuff I’ve always wondered about but never learned

  • @scotandiamapping4549
    @scotandiamapping4549 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mao : We hate you because your too soft on the US
    Also Mao : Becomes softer with the US

  • @RP-rs4fu
    @RP-rs4fu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Miss those 10 min videos

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    USSR: Let's avoid Nuclear war
    China and Albania: Aight imma head out now
    China 🤝 Albania
    Being friends now

  • @-e2554
    @-e2554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1:09 I couldnt handle this

  • @timesnewlogan2032
    @timesnewlogan2032 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mao: "You backed down against the USA? You're weak!"
    Also Mao: *Shakes hands with Nixon*

  • @danilotroncoso9170
    @danilotroncoso9170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mongolia: if we dont move they wont see us

  • @arandombard1197
    @arandombard1197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's kind of hilarious that they split over differing ideas on how to run the economy into the ground.

  • @thebuckhunter8881
    @thebuckhunter8881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You lose (atomic flash in background). Very accurate

  • @guoxiutang7569
    @guoxiutang7569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The USSR wanted a military port from China. And China rejected. It's not just difference on ideology.

  • @longclaw22-72
    @longclaw22-72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You're unironically the funniest guy on this whole site.

  • @CJ-dw3dr
    @CJ-dw3dr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When the choice for Mao is to ally with either the USSR or James Bissonette, it's a no-brainer.

  • @jeffsanders1609
    @jeffsanders1609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    America: You loose
    Japan: Not yet!
    America: *boom*

  • @stuffedmannequin
    @stuffedmannequin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like that Khrushchev replaced Stalin with an ear of corn.

  • @Super-chad
    @Super-chad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey, this is the most brilliant historian I've ever come across, seriously...

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!

  • @hijodeputa5450
    @hijodeputa5450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    hoxha's albania didn't follow maoism but supported china in the split because he despised khrushchev for his revisionism

    • @dandombrowski9991
      @dandombrowski9991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Noah Sabaj for a time but then came the sino-albanian split. which hohxa* would accuse mao of deviating from marxism leninism

  • @beriaenjoyer3937
    @beriaenjoyer3937 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:58 azerbaijan armenia and georgia missing fro
    USSR

  • @misterkrazy8401
    @misterkrazy8401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Maybe a video on Italy's split from the Central Powers before and during WW1?

  • @0wntXPl0x
    @0wntXPl0x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Any chance of a classic 10 minute video now n again, maybe finishing off the British history series please :)

  • @AkiraNakamoto
    @AkiraNakamoto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    FYI, at the time of Stalin's 70th birthday, Mao spoke in a CCP assembly to celebrate Stalin's birthday. Mao called Stalin as "father" (and "advisor") in that speech.
    From Mao's perspective, he is the genuine Stalinist and Nikita Khrushchev betrayed Stalin. Mao called Khrushchev as a Revisionist, a name Rosa Luxemburg called Eduard Bernstein in the Second International.

  • @kauffner
    @kauffner 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    During the Cold War, Western analysts talked about a Sino-Soviet split that had supposedly opened in 1962. When the archives were opened at the end of the Cold War, it was discovered that the two Communist powers had started going at it much earlier. Mao murdered Gao Gang in 1954 for being too friendly with the Soviets. As soon as China was financially independent, which happened around 1955, Mao was his own man. Mao opposed a reunified Vietnam. After Sputnik in 1957, the Soviets felt confident enough to disregard Mao's views. They pushed for a renewed Communist offensive in Vietnam, thus kicking off the Vietnam War. The point of the Great Leap Forward was to finance the building of a Chinese nuclear bomb, which of course was directed primarily at the Soviets.

  • @NoNameAtAll2
    @NoNameAtAll2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1:34 less than or more than sign?

    • @Root174
      @Root174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Every TH-camr seems to do it wrong :P . The symbol he used is "less than", so he accidentally wrote 15,000,000 or less instead of 15,000,000 or more. Draw imaginary vertical lines inside the arrow and you will notice that one side has longer lines than the other. Longer lines = larger number; shorter lines = smaller number. It should either be >15,000,000 or 15,000,000

    • @esef18
      @esef18 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Root174 it's not that it's just showing a Chinese farmer so it means 15000000 Chinese farmers died

    • @esef18
      @esef18 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      na