“There used to be a brief period when Mao and Stalin were more or less Heaven’s

—“There used to be a brief period when Mao and Stalin were more or less Heaven’s sons and spiritual brothers destined to change the world, with Stalin being an elder one, but it quickly deteriorated after Stalin’s death; with China seeing Khrushchev as an degenerate idiot, and Khrushchev seeing maoists as a spoiled children of the revolution needing a lesson. Tensions continued to escalate during Brezhnev rule which resulted in a military incident on a border. … After Perestroika there were many voices in the top echelons of Russian government to adopt Chinese way of development and learn from Chinese administration, which would make Russia directly subordinate to China in every possible way, but instead the current politicking allows a slow, creeping assimilation of far Russian regions by Chinese settlers and similarly creeping subordination of the trade relations and economy, while keeping a brave fake appearance of utterly independant, maverick Putinist state.”– Igor Rogov