Read Red Star over China, great book if you haven't already. Until the communist purge of the late 20s, Mao was a member of the KMT along with many other Communists (who were dual members of the party and the KMT)
the Soviet backed the KMT because they said that the Communist Party is not communist because it is an agrarian party in an agrarian country. They just told the Communists to form a coalition in order to work from the inside. I'm sure that didn't backfired.
Communists have a long love-hate relationship with the KMT
Read Red Star over China, great book if you haven't already. Until the communist purge of the late 20s, Mao was a member of the KMT along with many other Communists (who were dual members of the party and the KMT)
Blew my mind when I learned the Soviets backed them.
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To be fair, if the Long March didn't succeed, the nascent revolution may have been crushed prematurely.
The KMT failing to stop the CPC was a skill issue.
reactionaries are always inferior unless they have continents upon continents of stolen wealth
the Soviet backed the KMT because they said that the Communist Party is not communist because it is an agrarian party in an agrarian country. They just told the Communists to form a coalition in order to work from the inside. I'm sure that didn't backfired.