PhDr. Zlata Černá

“Soviets has experts in all important areas hence the cultural revolution, which began much later, only in 1966, again it was not written down, but I overhead a discussion as I was in Moscow at the time and a Soviet sinologist came back from his stay in China totally scared, so they called Soviet experts together, at the Pei Tan university to a stadium and the Chinese shouted at them and so on. The first thing they cancelled, was the Youth Union, which was totally occupied by the Soviet Union collaborates. It was almost its branch. The Chinese claimed that the Soviets had their experts even on regional level. So in my opinion it really was... it started with the cultural revolution, a quarrel. Probably it was the only way, how to set China on its own way and did not became a post-colonial country of an ancient empire. As the Soviet Union was not the peak of thinking and industry and science, only in certain areas. In the sense of a superpower, which could still teach us something new as was Amerika at the time, so it had not such position at all. So what I saw at the time, was an intention to part from the Soviet Union and stand on own feet, which was not easy as really they, directly Soviets, they chased away only in 1958. Physically they were chased away, but the pro-Soviet elements remained there. And those were liquidated very harshly until the cultural revolution. And I personally think that was one of the actual reasons of the cultural revolution, that they let the youth to break [whatever], and meanwhile they destroyed what they wanted. But please, it is a bit... I do not find it conspiratorial, but logical. Maybe I am the only one, who stresses out this side, and I take it more from the Chinese people as I listened what they said, how they reacted or how the Soviets reacted on the Chinese relation, so this is what I later concluded.”