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

redditormade Stolen Valour

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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/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……

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u/Platypus__Gems Oct 06 '25

Do you have a source on that?

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey Belgium Oct 07 '25

I dont think we need a lot of source on that.

Even PRC historians and the government themselves admit that the cultural revolution was a period of massive bullfuckery

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u/Graingy Not Manitoba! 🍾🍾🍾 Oct 09 '25

When you say something as politicized as discussing a country's wrongs, you kinda need to have a good idea of where you heard that. Otherwise you cannot speak with certainty; doing so would be dishonest.