In 1969 they shot at each other in Eastern Siberia, today they swear by their deep friendship. The Russian-Chinese relationship is characterized by a long-standing rivalry. When Zwist, Beijing turned to its ideological nemesis: the United States. Kurt Seinitz explains the historical background.
It was October 23, 1972 in a small fabric store south of Beijing’s Old Town: a floor panel opens behind the Budel; we descend to the underworld, which is supposed to be an atomic bunker. The primitive caves dug into the bare earth would have been completely unsuitable in an emergency.
A nuclear bunker against whom? Not against the Americans, but against the Russians! It was the fear of a nuclear strike from Russia that Chinese leader Mao Zedong blamed Kremlin chief Nikita Khrushchev for.
Source: Krone
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