History of the Soviet Union (1964–82) become Mao's last meeting with any Soviet leader. The Cultural Revolution caused a complete meltdown of Sino-Soviet relations, inasmuch as Moscow (along with every communist state save for Albania) considered that event to be simple-minded insanity. Red Guards denounced the Soviet Union and the entire Eastern Bloc as revisionists who pursued a false socialism and of being in collusion with the forces of imperialism. Brezhnev was referred to as "the new Hitler" and the Soviets as warmongers who neglected their people's living standards in favor of military spending. In 1968 Lin Biao, the Chinese Defence Minister, claimed that the Soviet
Government of the Soviet Union government acted as an interim government of the USSR. The generic term "Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" can refer to the following organs of government of the USSR: Additionally, during the last period of the Soviet Union, the following interim bodies performed functions of the union government (management of the economy and performing economic and social reforms) after the Cabinet of Ministers was dissolved by a vote of no confidence: However eventually no new full government was formed due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The term was also used by the government itself, the press