As Habarnew recalls, 1977-1979 are the years when Russian-Chinese tensions were at peak. And the memories of the Russian border guards serving at these times there were matching the situation:
“At that time we always went patrolling in couples. It was not a big pleasure to meet such a gang from the other side. We tried to detect them earlier than they see us. However once I happened to face three of them alone. It was stupid thing to do from my side.”
According to those memories, Chinese border guards have sometimes offered to buy some things to Russians, teased them or simply made obscene gestures, such as on the next two photos:
“This is how their officers behaved! Showed their butts to Soviet border guards. We had instructions to make a salute when we meet them. Looks like our understanding of salute differs a lot”.
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