Meaning of Damansky | Babel Free

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Synonym of Zhenbao: the Russian name.

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“This is how Tass described the incident: "At 4:10 A.M. Moscow time [10:10 A.M. Far Eastern time] on March 2, the Chinese authorities staged an armed provocation in the area of the border post of Nizhnemikhailovka (Damansky Island) on the Ussuri River. An armed Chinese unit crossed the Soviet state frontier and proceeded toward Damansky Island.[…] Islands in the Ussuri River, which forms the border between Chinese Manchuria and the Soviet Union's Maritime Territory are disputed. Presumably Damansky Island, near Nizhnemikhailovka, 140 miles south of Khabarovsk, is one of the disputed islands.”

“The Chinese call it Chen Pao (Treasure). The Russians call it Damansky. Both claim the 6,200 square-yard, uninhabited island, located in the midst of the frozen Ussuri River that forms the common border of Russia and China.”

“The suggestion implicit in the Russian version of the Damansky fighting is that the Soviet guards were killed as a result of Chinese deceit and trickery, the sort of thing one would expect of an Oriental. Moscow’s propaganda was directed mainly to Westerners and it was presented in such a way as to strike a responsive chord among those prepared to believe in stories of Asian duplicity.”

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