Mao: The Soviets are getting too friendly with the West
Also Mao: shakes Nixon's hand

Remember when the History channel had documentaries like this?

Shout out to the camera mans that was able to capture these footage so we can watch them today. Imagine trying to record with sound of gun shooting  and explosive around you

My mother still remembers the events of 1969. The entire USSR was on the edge. They were terrified it would be nuclear war.

My grandparents grew up during the Great Leap Forward Movement, and grandpa would tell us stories of those times when he and his family had little to no food on the table and use these stories to teach us not to waste food.

This is history not taught in school. I had no idea about this. This puts a new spin on things happening in the 60's and beyond. Thank you.

This documentary is a pretty China heavy point of view. It would be nice to hear a few Russian voices in this as well. Not just Chinese.

A cold war within the Cold War

When Soviet and China at war.

Mongolia: Man, this is a great movie to watch

100 documentaries are not enough to picture Chinas history. Never a dull moment in China

“Why don’t you get rid of Mao” 🤣 said to the Chinese delegation. USSR really had balls, well, used to have!

So much for the so called “Unbreakable Alliance”.

An absurd conflict born of the total lack of diplomacy on both sides.

Excellent documentary. As a Chinese American immigrant, my parents grew up through the Cultural Revolution but were never able to articulate the chaos they grew up in. American education completely glossed over China's role in the Cold War. I never knew that Mao's weird on-off relationship with the Soviet Union was the main reason why his domestic policies came about the way they did. It's heart-breaking, honestly.

Throughout human history, friends became foes, enemies became friends…….it never changes.

Guess this explains how Nixon cozied up to the Chinese in 1972 and went over there for  a big photo op when we had troops in Vietnam fighting the Soviet backed North Vietnamese.

It’s all about who control the land, sea and air, on this  planet call earth.

It would have been nice to have more of the Soviet perspective.

This is crazy. I graduated high school in 1969. I was on to worrying about the Cuban-missle crisis but I never heard anything about a shooting war between China and the Soviet Union. Crazy.

Interesting.   US saved China from being nuked.    Also, I didn’t know this tension occurred during the height of the Vietnam war.   Damn, how the world would have changed.