Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:42:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org> Subject: Re: Why don't the Russians an' Chinese like eachother? On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Mike wrote: > I thot they might hav, both bein Communist an all, but mi dad told me they > don't... C'n sum one tell me why? Thanks. This is something I have wondered about muself, though I think I know some of the reasons. The biggest is nationalism, which, I think, is a part of Communist Party politics. The USSR and Communist China should have merged, but instead they got involved in a border war. Also, Chinese Maoists (and Maoists in general) felt that the USSR stopped being "revolutionary" after Stalin died. After Mao died the point became moot because China started getting into the free-market economy (proving that totalitarian states can easily accept a "free market").
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