Second Sino-Soviet War (Stars and Sickles)

Sino-Soviet border conflict
Part of the Cold War
Date November 8, 1978 – January 11, 1980 Location China, Soviet Union, Mongolia, East Turkestan Result Fall of the People's Republic of China
Belligerents
China	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Jaing Qing Zhang Chunqiao Yao Wenyuan Wang Hongwen	Alexei Kosygin
Strength
1,500,000	1,100,000
Casualties and losses
640,000 killed	510,000 killed

The Second Sino-Soviet War was the second conflict fought between the two leading communist powers: The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. By the late 70's, the ideological rift between Soviet-style Communism and Chinese-style Communism was very wide, and was a secondary but very significant contributing factor to the first Sino-Soviet conflict fought between 1969 and 1971.

This conflict was by far one of the most bloody since the Second World War, with the death toll being estimated at around 1.6 million casualties.

Chinese aims

China had many aims that led to war with the Soviet Union, but the primary reason was that the Chinese wanted to retribution for the embarrassing defeat in the first Sino-Soviet war.

Yao Wenyuan's book "Had we won the war". written and published in 1983 while in exile in Korea, detailing the world that would be shaped by a victorious China.

China sought to annex East Turkestan, Mongolia and Tibet. Korea and the Soviet Union would've become Chinese sattelite states, and the Soviets would've "had Maoist ideology imposed on them, by force if necessary". All Soviet nuclear missiles would've been transfered to China, giving them a MASSIVE nuclear stockpile.