Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian Foreign Ministry immediately issued a countercharge, claiming that a Chinese shepherd had sauntered 400 yards into Soviet territory in order to distract border guards while Chinese troops slipped into Russia. When ordered to leave, said the Russians, the Chinese replied with a burst of submachine-gun fire. Moscow mentioned no casualties on either side...
ALONG the 4,500-mile border shared by Russia and China, there is no clearer natural dividing line than the purple-hued Tien Shan mountain range. Rising majestically to heights of almost 25,000 feet, the permanently snowcapped peaks separate Soviet Kazakhstan from the Chinese region of Sinkiang. One main pass through the Tien Shan range is called the Dzungarian Gates, named after the Dsongars who formed the left flank of the Mongolian army of old. Historically the Gates have been the passageway for Mid-Asian traffic between Russia and China. Last week the two Communist giants reported that their...
According to China, which first reported the skirmish, Soviet troops intruded into Sinkiang for no ostensible reason. They killed one shepherd, kidnaped another, and brought large numbers of tanks and armored cars onto Chinese soil in an effort to "provoke still larger armed conflicts," said Peking. After the Russians refused to "talk reason," Chinese troops fought back in self-defense, but the situation was still "developing," the Chinese protest to Moscow added ominously...
...most ominous aspect of the event was the implication from both sides that such clashes had occurred before in this sensitive area. The Sinkiang border region is probably a more volatile confrontation point than even the far-eastern Ussuri River area, where Chinese and Soviet troops engaged in a series of bloody border fights last March. The Dzungarian Gates lie just 250 miles from China's nuclear-testing and research sites on the Taklamakan Desert. Moreover, the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, as it is officially called, is two-thirds populated by Kazakh peoples, many of whom resent Chinese rule...
...flare-up will doubtless give a new sense of urgency to Russia's campaign of military preparedness along the Sino-Soviet border. The campaign began some time ago, but has become much more evident since the Ussuri fighting...