[4] The term came from a similar slogan, "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai" (Hindi: हिंदी चीनी भाई भाई)[5] declaring brotherhood between the nascent republican India and China between 1954—1962, under the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, or "pancha shila", ultimately ending with the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
Similarly, in the USSR, the slogan "Russians and Chinese are brothers forever", derived from the song Moscow-Peking was seen, a sentiment that ended with the Sino-Soviet split.
[6] The slogan was used in Soviet literature, for example, in the book "Old Man Hottabych" by Lazar Lagin and in the corresponding movie.
The usage also continued after the Soviet Union's collapse, such as in the 1991 movie Promised Heaven by Eldar Ryazanov.
There are also cognates in other Indo-European languages: brother in English, frāter in Latin, φράτηρ in Greek.