l the blueprints of their projects. The Chinese claimed that these incidentswere evidence of bad faith on the part of the Soviets. (Westard, 86-9)The Chinese had their revenge in April 1960, when the Russians held a celebrationfor the 90th anniversary of the birth of Lenin. Prior to the celebration the Chinese wrote alengthy critique of the Russians called “Long Live Leninism.” In this critique they claimedthat they were the ones that truly followed Lenin’s communist tradition and the Sovietshad strayed from it. At the celebration, a debate over the critique quickly became a heatedargument and the communist parties gathered there were forced to take sides. While onlya dozen of the 81 parties took the side of the Chinese, the USSR was embarassed by theincident. (Griffith, 115-8) “Long Live Leninism” set off a series of public battles betweenChina and the USSR. Good faith quickly soured and the spilt between the two nationsdeepened. Sino-Soviet relations took a nose-dive from 1960 to 1963. During this time manyattacks from both sides came in the form of conferences, the press, radio, and letters.Albania, the only Chinese ally in Europe received harsh criticism from Khrushchev duringthe Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Party. The Soviets soon broke relations withthe Albanians just to spite the Chinese. The Chinese openly criticized Khrushchev’ssurrender to the United States during the Cuban missile crisis. China was also very angryover the USSR’s tacit support of India during the Sino-Indian War. After a failure toresolve differences in 1963 the Chinese wrote a scathing attack on Soviet foreign policy.Soon the focus of criticism shifted from foreign policy to internal regimes. The Chineseclaimed that the USSR was turning into a imperial and capitalistic society and the Russiansclaimed that China was turning into a military dictatorship. (Westard, 103-9) In someways, the Chinese began to critici...
