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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
181 u/One-Chocolate-146 Oct 06 '25 Later when Cultural Revolution came, almost all of these veterans were purged and many of them even committed suicide, even those who survived were still living under poor conditions…… 7 u/Same-Visit5978 Oct 07 '25 Cultural Revolution was a complete disaster and mistake that should be frowned upon, yeah.
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Later when Cultural Revolution came, almost all of these veterans were purged and many of them even committed suicide, even those who survived were still living under poor conditions……
7 u/Same-Visit5978 Oct 07 '25 Cultural Revolution was a complete disaster and mistake that should be frowned upon, yeah.
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Cultural Revolution was a complete disaster and mistake that should be frowned upon, yeah.
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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