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Word: mikhailovka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
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From the permanent Soviet border post at Nizhne-Mikhailovka, four miles distant, word of the attack flashes to Far Eastern military headquarters at Khabarovsk and on to Moscow. Soviet casualties have been heavy, and hard-liners among the Kremlin leadership persuade other Politburo members that Mao must be crushed now, before China becomes a nuclear superpower. Fast-moving, heavily equipped Russian armored columns stab across the Amur and Ussuri rivers into Manchuria, brushing aside China's infantry. A Soviet armored division knifes into Manchuria from the west, across the Mongolian border. Fleets of Ilyushin bombers pound Chinese airfields, troop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: A Sino-Soviet Shooting Script | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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