After Stalin died in 1953, Khrushchev slowly but surely centralized all power in his hands. He did this by inventing “evil crimes committed by Stalin” and purging anyone who disagreed under the accusation of “having collaborated with stalinist crimes”. For example, Lavrenty Beria suffered this fate. Principled party members like Molotov and Kaganovich tried to depose Khrushchev in a vote but he staged a military coup and had them arrested too. Once all opposition was gone, he continued “destalinization” by proposing his “peaceful coexistence theory”, meaning that capitalist west and socialist east can coexist peacefully forever, so no reason to worry about WW3. This is ludicrous, socialism and capitalism simply cannot coexist, in the end one always wins over the other. He also said that the Communist Party should represent “the entire soviet people”, instead of just the workers and peasants, basically including the bourgeoisie into the party. This contradicts every basic marxist tenet of class struggle. No, you cannot unite bourgeoisie and proletariat under 1 party, its impossible. The workers and peasants only must rule under socialism.
Mao saw all of this, and initially tolerated it. But after the military coup in 1957 and his “peaceful coexistence” theory, he had enough. He began rightfully criticizing Khrushchev, to which the USSR responded by cutting economic aid. In the end this escalated in 1961 when the USSR cut diplomatic relations with China. From then on, the international communist movement split in 2, proUSSR or proChina. Albanias Enver Hoxha supported Maos criticisms, which ultimately led to the Soviet Albanian Split, in which Albania sided with China against USSR.
PD: This is obviously a simplification, research more yourself.
After Stalin died in 1953, Khrushchev slowly but surely centralized all power in his hands. He did this by inventing “evil crimes committed by Stalin” and purging anyone who disagreed under the accusation of “having collaborated with stalinist crimes”. For example, Lavrenty Beria suffered this fate. Principled party members like Molotov and Kaganovich tried to depose Khrushchev in a vote but he staged a military coup and had them arrested too. Once all opposition was gone, he continued “destalinization” by proposing his “peaceful coexistence theory”, meaning that capitalist west and socialist east can coexist peacefully forever, so no reason to worry about WW3. This is ludicrous, socialism and capitalism simply cannot coexist, in the end one always wins over the other. He also said that the Communist Party should represent “the entire soviet people”, instead of just the workers and peasants, basically including the bourgeoisie into the party. This contradicts every basic marxist tenet of class struggle. No, you cannot unite bourgeoisie and proletariat under 1 party, its impossible. The workers and peasants only must rule under socialism.
Mao saw all of this, and initially tolerated it. But after the military coup in 1957 and his “peaceful coexistence” theory, he had enough. He began rightfully criticizing Khrushchev, to which the USSR responded by cutting economic aid. In the end this escalated in 1961 when the USSR cut diplomatic relations with China. From then on, the international communist movement split in 2, proUSSR or proChina. Albanias Enver Hoxha supported Maos criticisms, which ultimately led to the Soviet Albanian Split, in which Albania sided with China against USSR.
PD: This is obviously a simplification, research more yourself.