No way. There's two major socialist powers in the whole world, and one of them looks at the other and goes, "Ew no, I'll find someone else to hang with, like maybe that guy you hate, I mean yeah I hate him too, but like if the alternative is you, then maybe I can look past his flaws." It's basically an NTR plot, incredible L for the USSR regardless of who was in the wrong.
China was correct ideologically in rejecting the denunciation of Stalin for one thing, and it's part of the reason the PRC still exists and USSR doesn't. Also, their foreign policy was at times shitty during the split but not nearly to the extent of the black and white picture you claim. They supported a lot of AES and anti-colonial movments in Africa and elsewhere while Mao was still alive, sometimes spending much more than the USSR in doing so, since they were competing with the USSR for prestige and the role of leader of global communism. You can read about a lot of the details of that in Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell.
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No way. There's two major socialist powers in the whole world, and one of them looks at the other and goes, "Ew no, I'll find someone else to hang with, like maybe that guy you hate, I mean yeah I hate him too, but like if the alternative is you, then maybe I can look past his flaws." It's basically an NTR plot, incredible L for the USSR regardless of who was in the wrong.
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China was correct ideologically in rejecting the denunciation of Stalin for one thing, and it's part of the reason the PRC still exists and USSR doesn't. Also, their foreign policy was at times shitty during the split but not nearly to the extent of the black and white picture you claim. They supported a lot of AES and anti-colonial movments in Africa and elsewhere while Mao was still alive, sometimes spending much more than the USSR in doing so, since they were competing with the USSR for prestige and the role of leader of global communism. You can read about a lot of the details of that in Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell.
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I don't think it's that simple, but either way, being in the right doesn't mean it's not an L.
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The PRC has lasted longer than the Soviet Union, but this is somehow an L.