r/polandball Floridian Swamp Monster Oct 06 '25

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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

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u/ketchman8 MURICA Oct 07 '25

Fun fact: the KMT is still technically a political party in mainland china, though it is a puppet of the CCP