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Sino-Soviet split

Conflict between communist blocsLead figuresMao Zedong (until 1976)Hua Guofeng (1976–1978)Deng Xiaoping (1978–1989)Nikita Khrushchev (until 1964)Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982)Yuri Andropov (1982–1984)Konstantin Chernenko (1984–1985)Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–1989)Russian nameRussianСоветско–китайский расколRomanizationSovetsko–kitayskiy raskol People's Republic of China Soviet Union Countries that shared borders with both: Mongolia was Soviet-aligned while Afghanistan and North Korea remained neutral, with Afghanistan eventually becoming Soviet-aligned in the late 1970s.The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War.

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