ABSTRACT
The Soviet propaganda machine has recently churned out a string of lies to slander China over the Kampuchea-Vietnam armed conflict. A Soviet radio commentary on January 3 alleged that "the worsening relations between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Kampuchea have obviously been provoked by Peking." The Soviet newspaper, Izvestia, and TASS time and again spread such rumors as "many Chinese military advisers have taken part in the military actions of the Kampuchean side." A law governing the Kremlin's actions is that, whenever it wants to provoke an international dispute and interfere in it, Moscow invariably tries to create a pretext and often plays the role of a villain bringing suit before his victims in order to divert people's attention away from its own machinations.
