QUOTE (Byron @ Feb 19 2005, 04:00 PM)
QUOTE (RGR101 @ Feb 9 2005, 10:14 AM)
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I don't know remember the Damansky island incident where a few Soviets killed thousands of Chinese.
Brush up on your history. Even according to russians themselves(they start to scrap the Soviet era propaganda and facing up to the truth), the Soviet troops had their a$$ handed to them on Damanskii Island, the mere fact that Soviet/Russian force never set foot again on Damanskii after the brief military conflict is an indication of PLA's triumph over Soviet Red Amy.
Oh really then? if the Soviets never took over Damansky Island, then why did they sign it away to China in 1991, decades after the incident? How can they sign away something they never had? So the fact that they signed it away shows that they were in control of the island until 1991 until they gave the island away on their own free will
Not only Damansky island, the Soviets also bombed Manchuria, and stormed Damansky island and suffered relatively low casualities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/s..._conflict__1969QUOTE
Two weeks later the Soviets retaliated by bombarding Chinese troop concentrations in Manchuria and by storming the island. The result was a Soviet victory with at least 800 Chinese soldiers killed or wounded while the Soviets only had 60 killed or wounded
Again, like I said in the last post, you should brush up on your history, instead of citing from tabloid source(I believe it's steep in racist mantra: occidental can always triumph over oriental, hence, it's probably a direct quotation of the Soviet-era propaganda).
I will recommend "A 4,000 Kilometer Journey Along the Sino-Russian Border" by IWA$hitA Akihiro(Professor of Russian foreign policy and Sino-Russian relations at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University) to you. The english version of this book is released in 2004. I've got myself of copy of it, and it's definitely worth reading.
Iwa$hita has provided very detailed and insightful informations on the demarcation of the China-Russia border, after spending well over a decade on field research in the China-Russia border region. According to him, Damanskii island is under the de facto control of China after the 1969 military conflict. The 1991 signing is only for the Russians to offcially renouncing their claim on this tiny island.