I'm sure Sun Yat-Sen would have been proud to know the kind of "rich and well functioning democracy" his party would create.
HistoryMemes being ignorant fascist shitheads part #28733
The KMT mostly imprisoned Taiwan's intellectual and social elite out of fear that they might resist KMT rule or sympathize with communism. For example, the Formosan League for Reemancipation was a Taiwanese independence group established in 1947 which the KMT believed to be under communist control, leading to its members being arrested in 1950. The World United Formosans for Independence was persecuted for similar reasons. However, other prosecutions did not have such clear reasoning; in 1968 Bo Yang was imprisoned for his choice of words in translating a Popeye comic strip. A large number of the White Terror's other victims were mainland Chinese, many of whom owed their evacuation to Taiwan to the KMT. [...] In 1969, future president Lee Teng-hui was detained and interrogated for more than a week by the Taiwan Garrison Command, which demanded to know about his "communist activities" and told him "killing you at this moment is as easy as crushing an ant to death." Three years later he was invited to join the cabinet of Chiang Ching-kuo.
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Around 140,000 Taiwanese were imprisoned during this period, of whom from about 3,000 to 4,000 were executed for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang (KMT, Chinese Nationalist Party) government led by Chiang Kai-shek. Most of the victims of the White Terror were men, however a number of women were tortured and/or executed.
taken from White Terror (Taiwan)
how do the #FreeXinjiang types feel about Taiwan claiming territorial rights to Mongolia until the 21st century?
side note, the ccp vs. cpc thing strikes me as the same kind of language politics as native american vs. indigenous or african american vs. black. Does China have a published position on it or is this a western distinction?
Legit saw people on there and /r/China trying to justify the Shanghai Massacre, as if shit like that didn't cause Chiang to get knocked on his ass in the Civil War in the first place.
Don't tell chuds that it's called the White Terror or they'll fawn over what they think is Taiwan even more.
Lost the civil war cause no one supported him and his bandit army, the Communists offered everything the KMT did but better. Literally mass desertions, they lost despite being better equipped and having a bigger army iirc initially.
Yeah on paper they had 10 times the army, with artillery and air support
e: oh shit just noticed this thread is a month old
Rejecting vaccines from a company based in China to own the Chinese is well functioning, sweaty.
Can our comrades with Reddit mod clout just take over control of this sub already? Would love to see "must be historically accurate" as a rule there (just assuming it's not)
R history memes is reactionary, ignorant of history and blatantly ignores it's own rules.
