The PETTIEST breakup in history #history

Two nuclear superpowers, one very petty breakup. Sources - Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton, 2008) - William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003) - Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978), Zhou Enlai on the 1969 hot line call - East German embassy in Beijing, telegram of 2 April 1969 (Wilson Center Digital Archive) - Mao Zedong, "Two Birds: A Dialogue" (1965, published 1976) - Sino-Soviet split: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split - Project 596: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_596 Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Gymnopedie No 1", "Sneaky Snitch", "Covert Affair". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).