Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Afterswift@aol.com wrote in part: >Even on the Long March, he led a real army supplied by the USSR. It was that army that kept the Japanese off >balance during WW II, and defeated the nationalists Chinese after WW II. > Where did you read this? Soviet support of Mao during the Long March was virtually non-existent. Stalin fully backed and supported the Nationalists' until the defeat of Japan in August 1945 and only through in limited support of the Reds after W.W.II when he could see the writing on the wall with respect to which side was winning the civil war. Regards, Greg - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html