The signature in Moscow on February 14, 1950, of the Treaty on Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance Between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese People's Republic consolidated what in many Western eyes at the time was seen as the worst possible nightmare in the incipient Cold War: an ideologically based alliance of the two largest Eurasian continental powers implacably bent on the destruction of the "Free World." The Treaty was accompanied by various appended documents, not all of which were published or whose existence was even disclosed at the time.
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