S2 Ep2: Maoism, the Great Leap Forward / Famine and the Sino-Soviet Split
In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare
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The History of the Soviet Union
China's 5 year plan was based on a highly centralized economic development, agricultural collectivization and growth in heavy industries. Nikita Khrushchev offers hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and military aid to the Chinese. He also agrees to share perhaps the most important thing that a nation could possibly share with another, the know-how to create an atomic weapon.
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