Pakistan Defence

When China and India has border dispute before 1962, Soviet stand on India side. I remembered Chairman Mao talked with Soviet, telling them "Indian never had a revolution, it's capitalism. The old social structure is there, the elites are still there as how they rule in the old days".

The Soviet is obsessed over India and split with Mao finally.

Khurschev was more involved in trying to lossen the gap between the west in the end all he got was loss of Eastern bloc allies inculding PRC that Breznev tried to rebuild ties but failed to do

Mao sent his closest comrade, prime minister 周恩来 Zhou Enlai to Moscow when Khrushchev was arrested by Brezhnev, try to fix the ties.

But you know what? The Russian general asked if we can remove Chairman Mao just like what Russian did to Khrushchev. Of course Chinese left Moscow and remembered the humiliation.

Imo. To understand Khrushchev policy, we have to dig deeper into the internal political fights between Soviet elites. Without understanding the relationship and how those elites kill each other politically or physically, we will be confused.

Stalin left no anointed successor nor a framework within which a transfer of power could take place.

Khrushchev become First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is an accident of Soviet.

The fight among Soviet elites, such as Malenkov, Beria, Khruschev, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich and Anastas Mikoyan is as good as HBO drama.

Khruschev allied with Malenkov, and pretended to be ally of Beria, he helped Malenkov to arrest Beria. After that Zhukov played a key role to help Khruschev win the battle.

As you knew the Soviet political fight tradition, the loser not only lose power, but also life, there is no middle ground, no plan B, everyone will try no matter what to win. It's life or death.

The Republics of the Soviet Union see this as an opportunity, China get some leverage too, so is Poland, East Germany, and the Yugoslavia.

The Death of Stalin was pretty good film that dealt with Beria/Khruschev feud tho it is from a western viewpoint was actually banned in Russia and Belarus for insulting Stalin

Zhou Enlai was fine statesmen that PRC produced I wonder had he not die in 1976 how would he ran China for few years people in the west forget Deng did not take reigns until like 1978/1979 Huo Guofeng was the dude in the time period from Gang of Four troubles of the mid 70s to 1979 pretty passive dude Huo

The elites of Soviet sought support among Republics of the Soviet Union and other communist countries, and the latter get more freedom.

After the secret speech - "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", the moral high ground lost as well.

A decent political system needs a decent framework within which a transfer of power could take place.

Mikhail Suslov was said to have been much more competent dude however he got tossed aside only to be bought back in the Breznev era

US political system is bad on power transfer, but it worked better than Soviet because of the huge external pressure.

When Soviet collapsed, internal pressure emerged and dominated US political arena.

The US elites were busy on sharing the cake in past 3 decades, the corruption is out of control.

US during the cold war had big partisian consensus on foreign policy that shifted only recently in the last decade

Also US failed to reign in military industrial complex and neo con cild war era folk

Put the right man on the right position is key to maintain a healthy political system.

Every political system will decay be default like a house will wear and tear. The myth that western democracy can autodrive is nothing but a propaganda.

Imo, Chinese by and large are historians. Maxist are theorists. Leninist is Party affairs cadre.