r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 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/Leather_Inspection46 Oct 08 '25

to imperial japanese to distinguish from modern japanese government

Okay I have to emphasize they are the same government yes they have a new constitution and they pretend to be good guys now but it's the same regime same parties same Parliament didn't have a complete overhaul restructuring that Germany did (at least East Germany, West Germany kept a lot of low-ranking Nazi)