Like I said, Mao pursued bad foreign policy, but it was only the catastrophically bad US-collaboration (etc) after Khrushchev started the split, which he did for horseshit reasons.
And my, boiled down, point is that Mao's a splitter. Even if Khrushchev decided to be a piece of shit - which is understating it - that doesn't excuse Mao from being a little shit that grabbed his ball and went home.
We can point to the best Korea as having the most advanced and nuanced take on the whole situation and the period thereafter which is basically boiled down to continuing to cooperate even though you disagree because there's a whole imperialist world out there frothing at the mouth to enslave you or exterminate you.
Krushchev was the one who stopped cooperating first unless you believe that China not wanting Soviet military installations is a blow on the same level as Khrushchev's subsequent betrayal!
It's not lost on me how the whole ordeal fucked things over. Reading about poor Albania was very depressing, though in some respects it might be said Hoxha was also a splitter. I don't really know his policy but he correctly identified Khrushchevites as revisionists and wreckers and China as a turncoat, so it was a very difficult position, especially if Hoxha is to be believed about Khrushchev boasting to him about how he killed Stalin.
China not wanting Soviet bases makes about as much sense as the Soviets not wanting to fulfill China's request for a full restoration of pre-1859 Tsarist borders. The whole sino-soviet split was the result of pigheaddedness and arguing who had the bigger pighead is to aspire to be a pighead alongside them.
And frankly I don't know much about Albania outside of a story I either heard or read about some boomer hating his job so much he wrote to Enver to find him a better job and actually succeeding. Which is incredibly funny and an incredible testament of character for Hoxie as far as I'm concerned.
Like I said, Mao pursued bad foreign policy, but it was only the catastrophically bad US-collaboration (etc) after Khrushchev started the split, which he did for horseshit reasons.
And my, boiled down, point is that Mao's a splitter. Even if Khrushchev decided to be a piece of shit - which is understating it - that doesn't excuse Mao from being a little shit that grabbed his ball and went home.
We can point to the best Korea as having the most advanced and nuanced take on the whole situation and the period thereafter which is basically boiled down to continuing to cooperate even though you disagree because there's a whole imperialist world out there frothing at the mouth to enslave you or exterminate you.
Krushchev was the one who stopped cooperating first unless you believe that China not wanting Soviet military installations is a blow on the same level as Khrushchev's subsequent betrayal!
It's not lost on me how the whole ordeal fucked things over. Reading about poor Albania was very depressing, though in some respects it might be said Hoxha was also a splitter. I don't really know his policy but he correctly identified Khrushchevites as revisionists and wreckers and China as a turncoat, so it was a very difficult position, especially if Hoxha is to be believed about Khrushchev boasting to him about how he killed Stalin.
China not wanting Soviet bases makes about as much sense as the Soviets not wanting to fulfill China's request for a full restoration of pre-1859 Tsarist borders. The whole sino-soviet split was the result of pigheaddedness and arguing who had the bigger pighead is to aspire to be a pighead alongside them.
And frankly I don't know much about Albania outside of a story I either heard or read about some boomer hating his job so much he wrote to Enver to find him a better job and actually succeeding. Which is incredibly funny and an incredible testament of character for Hoxie as far as I'm concerned.