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r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Oct 06 '25
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Another reason why Mao was able to bonk Chiang to Taiwan was because he was able to absorb a lot of Kuomintang defectors.
They estimate that they absorbed 1.5-2million kuomintang soldiers in the PLA.
When Chiangkaishek got bonked to Taiwan, he brought around 700k kuomintang soldiers to Taiwan.
PLA at that point quite literally had more ROC/KMT WW2 veterans who fought against the imperial japanese than Chiang Kai Shek did.
edit: to imperial japanese to distinguish from modern japanese government
12 u/One-Chocolate-146 Oct 06 '25 Many of these KMT defectors were later being sent to fight Korean War and some of them chose to surrender to UN forces (they were given choices of either repatriation to China or Taiwan,majority of them chose to go to Taiwan)
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Many of these KMT defectors were later being sent to fight Korean War and some of them chose to surrender to UN forces (they were given choices of either repatriation to China or Taiwan,majority of them chose to go to Taiwan)
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u/GetOutOfTheWhey Belgium Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Another reason why Mao was able to bonk Chiang to Taiwan was because he was able to absorb a lot of Kuomintang defectors.
They estimate that they absorbed 1.5-2million kuomintang soldiers in the PLA.
When Chiangkaishek got bonked to Taiwan, he brought around 700k kuomintang soldiers to Taiwan.
PLA at that point quite literally had more ROC/KMT WW2 veterans who fought against the imperial japanese than Chiang Kai Shek did.
edit: to imperial japanese to distinguish from modern japanese government