Honestly by the end of this their struggle session might give us a run for our money. Currently at 8 upvotes and 110 comments. OP is also a new account who has only posted this and in r/Taiwan. Grab your popcorn folks, this one’s juicy.
EDIT: The cowards locked it.
Specifically the Taiwanese white terror, not to be confused with the Chinese white terror, also perpetuated by the GMD.
No no you don’t understand they’re pro Democracy, unlike bad China See see pee authoritarian.
Both parties are pro democracy at the beginning of the war, but only the CPC actually implemented Republicanism during the course of the war in the three thirds system. The GMD instead chose to model their government after Mussolini's and indeed even called their police "blueshirts"
When you throw the first punch by starting a wholesome democratic purge of the commies, only to get your ass kicked to a small island.
:mao-clap:
Literally they had the soviet union's support when they were social democrats under Sun Yat-sen, all they had to do was not do a rightward turn and bloody purge of communists and 'suspected comunists' and they'd be ruling China right now.
That’s what I’ve always thought. They could have been patient and worked to gradually diminish the power of the Left and CPC, all while paying lip service to “Socialism under the Three Principles”. Hell, if they were that eager to spill blood, they could have waited until after the war and pulled an Indonesia with the CIA’s help.
They really have no one to blame but themselves.