Editing Sino-Soviet split (section)

=== Siege of the Soviet embassy in Beijing===
In August 1966 the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the first of several notes to the Chinese embassy in Moscow protesting aggressive Chinese behavior near the [[Embassy of Russia, Beijing|Soviet embassy in Beijing]]. On January 25, 1967 the Chinese visiting the [[Lenin Mausoleum]] on [[Moscow]] [[Red Square]] jumped over a barrier and began chanting Mao quotes. Then one Chinese allegedly hit a Soviet woman, and a scuffle took place. After this incident new outrages against the Soviet embassy in Beijing began. The threat of physical danger caused the Soviets to evacuate women and children from their embassy in Beijing in February 1967. Even as the women and children were boarding the plane, they were harassed by hostile [[Red Guards (China)|Red Guards]].<ref>[https://iseees.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2001_02-mcgu.pdf CHINA, THE FUN HOUSE MIRROR: SOVIET REACTIONS TO THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, 1966-1969]</ref><ref>[http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/2709-1975-Borisov-JHS.pdf Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970]</ref>