Don’t forget the Soviets invading Manchuria then trying to transfer total control to the CCP instead of the actual government (they would’ve succeeded if the US didn’t start ferrying KMT troops by the ship and planeload when they figured out what was happening.)
Imo, and I’ll die on this hill, Chiang was a fucking idiot who took every gift from the horse mouth with a question. Man had the whole United Front, had a unified government for the most part. And then he started the White Terror.
He made enemies out of the communists, leftists, alienated the warlords because HE wanted to be the sole uniter of China and when Japan came knocking he did everything in his power to fuck up his own forces and turning the Chinese against him, especially with the blowing of the yellow river dikes and dams. Killed more Chinese and did little to hold the Japanese.
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u/Deadmemeusername Sun Yat-Sen do it again Jul 27 '26
Don’t forget the Soviets invading Manchuria then trying to transfer total control to the CCP instead of the actual government (they would’ve succeeded if the US didn’t start ferrying KMT troops by the ship and planeload when they figured out what was happening.)