Question by : How did china go about joining the soviet union?
I’ve found a bunch of stuff on how they broke up; but why did China join the soviet union? I’m writng a story that goes along with this; and I can’t start it if I don’t know how it started in history.
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Answer by Michael J
China never joined the Soviet Union, in that China was never one of the Soviet Socialist Republics that made up the U.S.S.R. Sure, they were ideological allies for a while, but China never “joined” the Soviet Union the way that, say, Ukraine or Kazakhstan did.
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Lenny says
Before Mao became the dictator of the separate huge state of China he was a Soviet puppet leader of the small China Communist Party residing in Soviet Siberia. He just grew from there and originally Stalin held some strings to pull on Mao.
It looks like Stalin did not pass those strings to Khrushchev, because Mao stopped listening to Moscow shortly after Stalin had died.
tham153 says
The People’s Republic of China was never a member of either the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics nor of the Warsaw Pact
Comicbook Reader says
China has never been a part of the Soviet Union. There is no way egos as large as Chaing Kai-Shek or Mao Tse Tung would have allowed China to be subservient.
They did however sign a Treaty in 1950 – Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance. It started to break down almost immediately. By the 1960s it was pretty much a dead issue and by 1970 border clashes broke out between the two nations. The treaty lapsed in 1979.
Michael N says
The Soviets supported the Chinese Revolution in 1949 (and prior to that), so naturally China supported the Soviet Union after they gained control of the government. This changed radically in about 1960 when China decided to assert its independence.