Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am...
by Nomentatus on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:55PM
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Mao received oodles of support from the USSR, the Long March was the Reds fleeing northward to where they could still get that support, and then being able to punch further East.
The KMT was also a revolutionary force (against foreign domination), and initially preferred by Moscow for practical reasons - the USSR would at that time only support a joint command.
Mao became leader of the Reds because USSR's contact defected to Mao from the previous general so the money etc had to go to Mao, the only point of contact the USSR then had with the Reds.
Post WWII Soviet support, esp military material support became very large indeed, allowing the Reds to crush the KMT.
Mao spent plenty of time and effort downplaying everything the USSR had done for him and in massive spats with the USSR, for his own political reasons. Just as Lenin didn't credit the massive support the Germans had given him, to undermine the Czar.
The KMT was also a revolutionary force (against foreign domination), and initially preferred by Moscow for practical reasons - the USSR would at that time only support a joint command.
Mao became leader of the Reds because USSR's contact defected to Mao from the previous general so the money etc had to go to Mao, the only point of contact the USSR then had with the Reds.
Post WWII Soviet support, esp military material support became very large indeed, allowing the Reds to crush the KMT.
Mao spent plenty of time and effort downplaying everything the USSR had done for him and in massive spats with the USSR, for his own political reasons. Just as Lenin didn't credit the massive support the Germans had given him, to undermine the Czar.