As the year 1970 gets into gear, it's still unresolved whether the dispute between the two communist giants of Russia and China will turn yet again into a shooting match along their frontiers.
In Peking the Red diplomats still sit it out in a long drawn out battle of words.
Tonight Europa looks at another battle, a battle of words and pictures, the propaganda battle between Moscow and Peking.
The story of how Chairman Mao came to power in China is the subject of one film. But it's the story as seen through Russian eyes; as put out by the Russian domestic television service. Then there is the official Chinese film about their dispute with Russia; about their hatred and fury with those they say have polluted the doctrines of Karl Marx. And the language they use about each other is pretty strong stuff.
Introduced by Derek Hart