Khroniki Damanskogo - Musalov A.

On March 2, 1969, at 11:15 a.m., shots rang out on the Soviet-Chinese border, marking the beginning of the first-ever armed conflict between the two major socialist powers.

Several hundred people have been killed in armed clashes at the borders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, and relations between the two countries have been damaged for decades to come.

However, the most striking thing happened after the end of the Soviet-Chinese confrontation. The political leaders of the warring states, realizing that they were on the edge of the abyss, tried not only to hush up the conflict, but actually erase it from history. For generations born after 1969, almost nothing was known about the confrontation between the USSR and the People's Republic of China until the end of the 1990s.

The book you hold in your hands is unique. Its author - an officer of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia for many years, according to fragments, restored the chronicle of the conflict, trying to find answers to burning questions: what happened on the Soviet-Chinese border in 1969? What caused such a bitter confrontation? How did the two countries prevent a slide towards a full-scale conflict?

After reading this book, the reader will find answers to these and many other questions.