Damansky

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.

1969 March 3, Henry Kamm, “Soviet and Chinese Clash on Border; Two Sides File Protests Charging Violations of River Frontier Soviet and China Forces Clash On River Border in Far East”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025

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.

1974, Gerard H. Corr, The Chinese Red Army: Campaigns and Politics Since 1949, New York: Schocken Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119