e Soviet Unions and the USSR’s attempt to profit (the USSR had charged 1%interest on the loan) was uncalled for and an insult to the Chinese government. (Nogee,261-5) There were a few reasons that the Soviet Union gave China such a scanty loan. Insome ways the USSR was still unsure on where they stood in China because they had notengineered the rebellion there. This was also before China decided to help in the KoreanWar and the USSR was unsure of the motives of China. They knew that they would not beable to control China like they controled contries in the East European Bloc.The schism between the USSR and China has occurred in three phases in the post-Stalin Cold War period. The first phase is roughly 1956 to 1960. In this period the Sovietsand the Chinese were on relitivly good terms. Differences that arose between the twonations were expressed in an understanding and receptive manner, however these cordialrelations began to deteriorate by the end of the 1950’s. From 1960 to 1964 the disputesbetween the USSR and China escalated into a schism between the two countries. In thefinal phase, which is 1964 onward, the two nations had split into separate “socialistsystems.” While the Chinese were never formally expelled from the world communistcamp, they did not feel that they were allied with the Soviet socialist camp. By the end ofthe 1960’s China and the USSR had become rivals in the global political struggle.(Westard, 51)The first real signs of Chinese dissatisfaction came early in the reign of thesuccessor to Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev had condemned the actions of Stalinwhen he became the head of the Soviets state. China felt that this was damaging to theChinese communist cause, for Mao was developing his own “cult of personality” andbeginning to act in the manner that Stalin did. (Halle, 127-131) But these minordisagreements were not enough to end the cordial relations of between Mao...
