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7/6/2025, 10:44:05 AM
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The dissertation anon has more details, but the idea that it was Soviet help that aided Mao doesn't strike me as accurate, because Stalin was pro-Chiang and pro-KMT in reality. He wanted Mao and the communists to lay down their arms and support a post-war KMT government. This sounds weird but that's Stalin for ya, he didn't like communists who were outside of his control and made their own decisions (also see Tito).
From what I've read about it, the communist victory came down to a very Chinese-type peasant revolution mixed with a Robin Hood-type conflict between the poor vs. the rich in a country with vast regions that hadn't changed much since antiquity. It was like Morrowind, a really crazy and strange country and it'd be better off getting started reading Water Margin from the 14th century rather than Marxist-Leninist dogma.
The dissertation anon has more details, but the idea that it was Soviet help that aided Mao doesn't strike me as accurate, because Stalin was pro-Chiang and pro-KMT in reality. He wanted Mao and the communists to lay down their arms and support a post-war KMT government. This sounds weird but that's Stalin for ya, he didn't like communists who were outside of his control and made their own decisions (also see Tito).
From what I've read about it, the communist victory came down to a very Chinese-type peasant revolution mixed with a Robin Hood-type conflict between the poor vs. the rich in a country with vast regions that hadn't changed much since antiquity. It was like Morrowind, a really crazy and strange country and it'd be better off getting started reading Water Margin from the 14th century rather than Marxist-Leninist dogma.
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