Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China in the area of Damansky Island during the Sino-Soviet border conflict. The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split. The most serious of these border clashes, which brought the world's two largest communist states to the brink of war, occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao (Damansky) Island on the Ussuri (Wusuli) River, near Manchuria. The conflict resulted in a ceasefire, with a return to the status quo.

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Location: China
Photo credit: © Archive Collection / Alamy / Afripics
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