How Putin Screwed Up In China

The plot of 75 years ago will repeat itself.

Kremlin propaganda seeks to portray relations between China and Russia as a partnership of equals and eternal friendship. Oh well.

During his visit to China, Vladimir Putin, to describe relations between the two countries, recalled a phrase from the Soviet song “Moscow - Beijing”: “A Russian and a Chinese are brothers forever.” There were other notable lines:

“Stalin and Mao are listening to us”

“There were no stronger bonds in the world”

The song was written in 1949. And after a couple of years, an old hidden conflict between the leaders came to the surface.

“The relationship between these two people was neither cordial nor even familial, as the propaganda posters would have you believe. Stalin and Mao deeply despised each other and never considered the other their equal, but only a tool for promoting their own political programs,” notes “History.”

Well, then there was an open phase of the Soviet-Chinese split, one of the results of which was the battle for Damansky Island.

It seems that the “historian” from the Kremlin does not know history well. But the Chinese know their history just fine. Therefore, the Russian ruler's attempt to flatter them may have the opposite effect.

Everything is heading towards the plot of 75 years ago repeating itself. It is therefore symbolic that Putin quoted a song that imitated the eternal friendship between Moscow and Beijing, but preceded a major showdown between the two countries.

Mikhail Broshin, Solidarity