Welcome to an overdrive edition of the Russian rulers history podcast.

This is a continuation of the series from the book Kruzjof Remembers,

and this has to do with the relationship or the deteriorating relationship. of the We're going to go through the second visit to P King, the Formosa Straight Crisis, the third visit

to P King, the Great Leap Forward, and the Border Dispute before we wrap this up. This will be the last of the readings from this particular section of Krustoff remembers.

The next episode, regular one, the episode 101, where we'll be seeing Khrushchev being overthrown

by people like Ramiko and Brezenev.

And then we're going to have a final reading from this book, and that will be having to do with agriculture and how

Khrushchev is probably the only time Khrushchev actually talks about

what the people who took over from him were doing and what he sees as their problems, especially

this agricultural issue which really haunts Russia and the Soviet Union and had for so many centuries.

So let's begin.

This is the second visit to P King.

Once we began to produce diesel and nuclear-powered submarines, our Navy suggested that we request of the Chinese government

permission to build a radio station in China so that we could maintain communications

with our submarine fleet operating in the Pacific. We discussed the matter in leadership

and decided to make a formal proposal to the Chinese. We considered the idea

to be as much in China's interests as it was in our own. After all, we shared with the Chinese the common goal of

protecting the socialist countries against the imperialists.

Besides, we'd willingly complied with Mao's request that we help them build submarines.

As far as I remember, we let the Chinese have our designs and sent our experts to help them choose

a place in which to build the submarines.

Therefore, we fully expected the Chinese to cooperate with us

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