Chapter 320: A Belated Honeymoon

Following the complete victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, China successfully recovered the territory of the Far East occupied by the Soviet Union, and within 10 years, China was able to defeat the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and China's international prestige was like a sky. No country has "courageously" come forward to condemn China's wrongdoing. In some cases, the heads of state of various countries came one after another to pay goodwill visits and express their "heartfelt" congratulations on China's victory. This once again verifies that the winner is the king and the loser is the villain, the winner is always accompanied by flowers and applause, the result determines everything, and the winner is not condemned for this subversive and unbreakable "great truth".

The recapture of the Far East occupied by the Soviet Union has greatly strengthened China's strength in all aspects, and through a month of high-intensity war, the Far East that has been occupied by the Soviet Union for hundreds of years has become China's state-owned assets. The Soviet Union's Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft factory and Irkutsk aircraft factory accounted for 4 or 5 of these well-known aircraft manufacturing companies; In later generations, there were also three or four large shipyards such as the Komsomolsk Kesmansk Shipyard, which produced the famous submarine killer - Kilo-class diesel-electric conventional submarines. These are high-quality assets. Even more valuable were the millions of skilled workers and engineers in the Soviet factories in the Far East, which were the most scarce in China. All this, combined with China's advanced electronic technology and information technology, will produce tremendous productive forces. What kind of impact will that have on the whole world?

China now has the strength to compete with the United States on the other side of the Pacific. It's just that the Far East is too anxious and too fast, and you need to sit down and digest it slowly for a while. The most urgent task at the moment is to appease the Soviet Union, the wounded polar bear, so that China will have time to properly straighten out the more than 5 million square kilometers of territory that has been swallowed up by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union for more than 300 years.

Khrushchev led a delegation of the Central Committee of the CPSU to China's 10-year grand celebration that attracted the attention of the world, and the huge military parade left a deep impression on him and all the members of the Soviet delegation. In the past 10 years, New China has created countless miracles on the ruins of the war full of poverty and trauma, written an immortal chapter in the history of human development, and built China into one of the most developed countries in the world. China's development is really too fast, not only does it have the world's most powerful ultra-modern army, but also the Chinese in these 10 years, completely bid farewell to hunger and cold, the people's poor life, there are no unemployed people in China, the city is full of high-rise buildings, and the urban living area has reached 15 square meters. Everyone lives and works in peace. Not only that, but the standard of living of the Chinese people has not been as high as it is now. China's home telephone, television, refrigerator, radio, and electric motorcycle ownership rate is undoubtedly the largest in the world.

The delegation of the Soviet political axe, led by Khrushchev, after participating in the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, did not rush back home, but, accompanied by the Chinese President [***], visited a number of factories, people's communes, troops, schools and families of ordinary laborers in Yanjing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Nanjing. They personally felt the process of hard work and selfless work of the hardworking and intelligent Chinese people with one heart and one mind, and felt that China was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Khrushchev's expression was focused on the [***] who accompanied him on the visit, and he said: "Comrade Liu, we have come to your great China this time to ask for advice and learn from the Chinese party and China's political axe. Can you please tell me how the Chinese party and political axe have enabled the Chinese people to be so high-spirited and high-spirited, to participate wholeheartedly in the construction of the country, and to continue to create one miracle after another at China's speed?

After a little thought, Comrade Mao ZD said that if you are poor, you will think about change, you must do it, and you must make a revolution. Over the past 100 years or so, the Chinese people have been invaded and plundered by imperialism, exploited and oppressed by the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. The Chinese people who stood up did not want to be poor anymore, they did not want to be bullied anymore. That's their primal motivation. The Chinese people fully understand the truth that if they fall behind, they will be beaten and bullied by others. The backwardness I am referring to here is by no means just backwardness on the material basis, but more backwardness in terms of system, ideology, and consciousness. After hundreds of years of bloody lessons, the Chinese people have come to the truth that only socialism can save China. Under the leadership of China, China must persist in taking the socialist road in order to ensure the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people and achieve the goal of making the country rich and the people strong and no longer being bullied by others. This is the real motivation for them to be high-spirited, high-spirited, wholeheartedly participate in the construction of the country, and continue to create one miracle after another.

The defeat of the Sino-Soviet War and the sight of the 10-year military parade in China on the square of the 10th anniversary of the Chinese army had been stimulated and opened to Khrushchev's eyes, and he continued to ask thoughtfully: "What else?" I am referring to the role of the Chinese party and the political axe in this. ”

"Of course, policies and tactics are the life of our party," said with a solemn expression: "The formulation of a series of policies and guidelines in line with China's national conditions by the Chinese party and the political axe plays a decisive role. ”

Khrushchev, who did not have a high level of education, was a man of great energy and ability, but he could not fully display it. He said to himself without any pretense: We must have correct policies, be good at studying and summing up, and take the study of China's advanced technology and advanced management methods as the starting point for the accelerated development of the Soviet Union.

During his 10-day visit to China, Khrushchev and the Soviet delegation visited the Capital Iron and Steel Company, the Tianjin Refrigerator Factory, the Shanghai Lantian Automobile Factory, and the Nanjing Tengsheng Electric Appliance Factory.

During his visit to the Capital Iron and Steel Company, he carefully inquired about the plant's equipment and technology, and hoped that China would introduce its advanced production management experience to the Soviet Union. It makes people feel Khrushchev's eagerness to catch up with China. During his visits, Khrushchev always compared the current situation and the gap between China and the Soviet Union while visiting.

When visiting the Nanjing Tengsheng Electric Appliance Factory, Khrushchev was invited to visit the factory's product exhibition hall, and he saw the automatic washing machine and exclaimed: "This washing machine is very good, it is very convenient to use, and it can liberate people from trivial housework." At the microwave booth, the staff put a fresh sea bass in the microwave oven, heated it for 5 minutes, and asked Khrushchev to taste it, Khrushchev looked at it seriously, and then took a knife and fork and ate it, and said repeatedly: "Good, good, it tastes good." ”

When asked by a reporter from the People's Daily who accompanied him how Khrushchev felt about his visit to China. He said: "This visit to China has enabled me to see the great progress that China has made in society, science and technology, and to truly see what modernization is. We rejoice and are encouraged by these incredible achievements of socialist China, and at the same time, we are also inspiring us, the big brother of socialism, to speed up our construction. We need to run fast now. Run fast at Chinese speed. ”

In Khrushchev's mind, relying on the prestige of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, China demanded war reparations, forcibly dismantled the industrial equipment of the capital, and forcibly conscripted laborers from the secondary industry to carry out industrial construction. Then, by stimulating domestic demand for post-war construction, the export of light industry, electronic products, and the sale of patented technology, the original accumulation of capital was quickly completed and embarked on the road of modernization. Although the Soviet Union could not completely copy China's model of socialist modernization, many ways and methods could be accepted and used for reference by the Soviet Union, especially the agricultural contract system and the experience of factory farming.

Khrushchev led the Soviet political axe delegation to stay in China for a very rare 10 days, and saw with his own eyes the fruitful achievements made by China in the 10 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Moreover, his visit was also full of gifts, and he pulled two special planes just for the household appliances such as colors, refrigerators, microwave ovens, and air conditioners that were given to the members of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. These are all small cases of sprinkling water.

It is important that China's top leaders make it clear that China will never be the leader of the international movement and that they support the Soviet Union for continuing to be the head of the international movement. This point was of paramount importance to the Soviet Union, and in order to ensure the strategic and geopolitical security of the European part of the Soviet Union's core region, the Soviet Union could not afford to lose the leading position of the boss of the socialist camp.

Another major achievement is that the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty was signed in 1949, and is it still in force through this Sino-Soviet war?

The Chinese side said that this border conflict did not affect the validity of the Sino-Soviet friendship treaty. The Chinese party and political axe solemnly promised that if the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) took action against the Soviet Union and the countries in the socialist camp in the European region, China would give full support to the countries of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp in countering the aggression of the imperialist bloc, and China would guarantee that China's territory would be a reliable strategic rear of the Soviet Union. In order to show its sincerity, China also gave the Soviet delegation satellite photographs and coordinates of all the medium- and long-range missile bases deployed by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe when the Soviet delegation was leaving. He also promised to send Chinese experts as soon as possible to help the Soviet Union in the development and research of weapons and equipment. Of course, the prerequisite is that these weapons and equipment cannot be deployed in the Asian region. The USSR was able to understand this, and who could use the weapons that they helped develop and research to fight themselves.

Khrushchev, acting as the Soviet Party and political axe, said that the Soviet Union is willing to conduct comprehensive communication with China in a wider range of fields, enhance friendship, resolve contradictions, strengthen cooperation, and seek common development. We should do a better job in socialist construction in the two countries. The whole [***] movement of the International [***] is better managed, and it proves institutionally that socialism has an incomparable superiority and a stronger superiority than capitalism.

China said that it sincerely hopes that the comprehensive cooperative relations between the Soviet Union and China will be strengthened more extensively and deeply, and that the breadth and depth of cooperation between the two sides will be comprehensively enhanced, and that China will resolutely support Khrushchev's reforms and stability within the socialist camp in Eastern Europe.

After Khrushchev's visit to China, a "China fever" emerged in the Soviet Union, a large number of party, government, and military inspection groups of the Soviet political axe poured into China, a number of Chinese experts and scholars were invited to give lectures in the Soviet Union, meetings of the members of the Chinese and Soviet political axes were held one after another, official exchanges in various fields and at all levels became more active, and political, economic, military, trade, and technical cooperation between the two countries developed rapidly.

With the large-scale withdrawal of troops from China and the Soviet Union in the areas of contact between the two sides, at the invitation of the USSR Defense Committee, a number of weapons experts from the Chinese side entered various weapons research institutes and weapons production plants of the Soviet Union.

Under the guidance of Chinese experts, the T62 tank was finalized one year ahead of schedule in 1961, and in 1962 it was mass-produced and equipped with troops two years ahead of schedule, and it appeared in the Red Square parade for the first time in October 1963. This saved the Soviet Union a lot of money on research and development. In the next 10 years, the Kharkov Tank Plant, the 75th Tank Plant and the 163rd Tank Plant of the Soviet Union produced a total of more than 20,000 T62 tanks. And equip the armies of a number of socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

The research institutes of each of the three aircraft divisions of China with the prefix of six characters also followed suit and carried out close cooperation with the famous aircraft design bureaus of the Soviet Union, such as Sukhoi, Mikoyan and Yakovlev, with the program of rebuilding existing Soviet aircraft. "Design guidance" and modification of various aircraft of the USSR. Of course, it is more about quietly learning from the Soviet Union

Following the announcement of December 11, 1960, the two sides formally signed a joint statement on the establishment of the West Siberian Special Administrative Region jointly administered by China and the Soviet Union in the area east of the Ural Mountains, west of Lake Baikal, and south of the 53rd parallel of the Soviet Union, and on the economic and technological cooperation between the two countries on the shelf of sovereignty and joint development. At the same time, China and the Soviet Union ratified the Basic Law of the Western Siberian Special Administrative Region. In May 1962, the two countries signed an agreement on the eastern section of the border between the two countries in accordance with the actual ceasefire line. In November 1962, China and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on the middle section of the border between the two countries along the ceasefire line. In December 1963, China and the Soviet Union finally signed an agreement on the western section of the Sino-Soviet border along the ceasefire line.

So far, the most fundamental contradiction between China and the Soviet Union has been resolved. China and the Soviet Union have come together again and entered the honeymoon period. With the continuous understanding and friendly relations between China and the Soviet Union, the degree of mutual trust has been enhanced. The border between the two great socialist powers, China and the Soviet Union, became the longest in the world, and the border between the armies of both sides was undefended. In this way, both sides have saved a lot of military personnel and military expenditures, and have devoted all their limited war resources to opposing the Western imperialist countries headed by the United States and safeguarding the interests of the socialist camp.

(To be continued)