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a. Only 50 years ago? The Japanese surrender was 70 years ago, and the civil war between the PLA and the KMT was all over but the shouting 65 years ago. b. The
by cafard 11y ago
a. Only 50 years ago? The Japanese surrender was 70 years ago, and the civil war between the PLA and the KMT was all over but the shouting 65 years ago.
b. The British? The corrupt royals? The royalty was gone except from the puppet state in Manchuria well before that.
c. The expulsion of the Japanese had a good deal to do with the Japanese losing a war to certain Western powers, not to mention, in at the end, the USSR.
d. It is not at all clear to me (I am no historian) that the revolution per se would have sufficed without the losses suffered from 1938-1945.
- roymurdock 11y agoYou're right - for some reason I thought we were still in the year 2000. The main brunt of the revolution occurred 70-80 years ago from 1930-1945. I also agree that the huge macroeconomic instability of WWII was helpful in allowing the communist party to organize a successful campaign as the KMT had to deal with multiple enemies on multiple fronts, and the communists were also receiving aid from the US to fight the Japanese post Pearl Harbor. I think we would need to see another period of large-scale war in order to see any kind of revolution in China.