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Attygalle t1_j3b5bf8 wrote

Reply to comment by TheBalrogofMelkor in The Forgotten Story of the American Troops Who Got Caught Up in the Russian Civil War by Novel_Finger2370

Reminds me of China where the great CCP let the KMT and local warlords do all the fighting against the Japanese in WWII only to backstab them when the war was basically won and then “win” the civil war. It’s a very effective tactic.

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Loves_His_Bong t1_j3b97jy wrote

The CCP did not “backstab” the Kuomintang lmao. And the red army had 60,000 thousand soldiers compared to the KMTs 2 million. The terms of the United front stipulated as much that the CCP was responsible for Guerilla warfare and sabotage operations against the Japanese.

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CaptainDaveomedes t1_j3bagcy wrote

If there was backstabbing it was from the KMT about-facing on their first United Front and tried to massacre all the Communists. Then a second United Front had to be FORCED on Chiang Kai-Shek by his own command structure because he obsessively overcommited to fighting the CPC over the Japanese.

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