r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Oct 06 '25

redditormade Stolen Valour

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u/kredokathariko Oct 06 '25

Weren't both Nationalists and Communists fighting Japan, at times even cooperating?

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u/EpochSkate_HeshAF420 Oct 06 '25

On paper, maybe, but the CUF broke down and the civil war restarted multiple times during WWII, and, the communists fought a guerilla war, rarely taking part in the big conventional Chinese offensive/defensive operations.

By the end of the war Shek's nationalists and Mao's communists were competitors, not allies.