Talk:Foreign relations of the Soviet Union

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Please do some genuine research before accusing copyvio; this is a public domain country study from the United State's Library of Congress. [1] 119 20:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] China

Where's china? This is a huge part of Soviet relations, no?

[edit] The Vietnam War, The Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sino-Soviet Relations

Sorry, it just seems you missed out a fair bit of Soviet Foreign Policy. This is a real summary or starting point. I'm sure they're mentioned in other sections to a fuller extent but maybe you could mention that these were part of SFP so they can be explored?

Vietnam War --> aided Ho Chi minh and sent supplies to Vietnam until even after the war that helped the Vietnamese economy to survive

Korean War

--> walked out of secutiry council of UN, of which they were co-founders

--> sent troops to Korea as well

Cuban Missile Crisis

--> Castro didn't really even play an important role in the crisis, Khrushchev helped bring the Cold War to the brink of hot war

Sino-Soviet Realtions Shattered unity of Communist Bloc

Cause:

• 1956: Khrushchev denounced Stalinism without Mao

• 1958: Mao bombs islands without Khrushchev

• 1960: China attacks ‘peaceful co-existence’ saying it undermines world revolution

Results:

• Soviet experts withdraw from China

• USSR doesn’t help during 1961 famine

• In a border dispute between China and India, USSR backs India

• Almost a war between China and USSR, to the extent that troops lined up at the borders, as the Chinese claimed land the Tsars had taken.

 Can see that USSR was not dominating the world through this example

• 1962: Mao criticises Khrushchev for Cuban Missile crisis

• Moscow began to pursue a policy of containment of China, isolating it by improving relations with Laos, Cambodia, Japan, etc.