How did the Communists Take over China? | History of China 1945-1955 Documentary 7/10

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The Chinese Communist Revolution was one of most significant and consequential events in modern History.

Still insane to me, he came out on top despite all odds.

The main force of the Kuomintang was wiped out in the Northeast and the North China Plain because of Chiang Kai shek's arrogance and the corruption of the army. When friendly forces were besieged, the Kuomintang generals chose not to rescue but to flee the battlefield to preserve their private army. This exposes that the national army is still a group composed of a group of warlords Thank you for 115 compliments. Glad everyone is so interested in China's civil war In addition, the failure of the Kuomintang was largely due to Chiang Kai shek's poor command. He always gave the wrong instructions at the wrong time to put his troops in a dangerous situation. He also appeared hesitant when it was necessary to make a decisive decision whether to withdraw or attack, which led to his loss of the main cities in the Northeast. On the other hand, the generals of the National Revolutionary Army are mostly composed of warlords who personally loyal to Chiang Kai shek during the period of melee warfare. These private armed forces, despite military assistance from various countries around the world, are equipped with advanced infantry equipment from various countries, even tanks and aircraft. However, the organizational form of these armies is still similar to the old feudal armies of the Qing Dynasty and the First Republic, and the sources of soldiers are very complex, ranging from forced omen farmers to rural bandits and hooligans, to students who participated in the revolution under the influence of Western democratic ideas and labor movements. The organization of the National Army is loose, and due to the corruption of the military, most of the time, these troops suffer from severe pay arrears. Soldiers can only rely on the supplies withheld by the military and sometimes rob local people for a living. Only the most elite Kuomintang troops can avoid these problems to some extent. And the Communist army had the same problems as other warlord forces in its early days. However, after Mao Zedong launched the "rectification movement" within the Communist Party, these issues were completely resolved. Western media summarized the movement as a dictatorial action by Mao Zedong to use his personal prestige to eliminate dissent, which was not comprehensive. This movement has completely revolutionized the Red Army in terms of organization and morale. They have established the Party organization at the company level and appointed political commissioners to each unit. Political commissioners are not the military supervision teams that only shoot their own soldiers, as claimed by Western media. They are more responsible for political education and rectifying military discipline. They even teach soldiers to read, write, and understand maps. In the Communist army, there is a term called "military democracy", which proposes to involve every grass-roots soldier in the discussion of combat operations. For officers who do not respect the human rights of soldiers, they establish a soldier committee to report bullying in the army. All this has made the Communist army the only modern army in China, with morale comparable to that of the European army, despite their extreme lack of weapons and equipment compared to their enemies. This led the Communist Party to always be able to survive every encirclement and suppression by the Kuomintang and, as they grew stronger, to defeat Kuomintang forces several times their own and ultimately rule China. It is difficult for us to connect today's CPC with that of the past

Turned many in China against him. Hence when the Communists arrived many defected. He had long-standing relations with Japan, and Chiang Kai-shek even taught military studies in Japan

Nationalist forces be like "how did we lose??? All we did was loot and murder our own country men"

KMT had really serious internal problems, KMT lost the war with a troop that is four times the army of CCP’s and half of their army turns their back on them. That is where you now they messed up.

I'm sure this was never originally a 8 part series, but im all for it

By far the most detailed video on this topic on YouTube! So informative. You're doing a great job. Keep going!

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As a chinese myself, I would like to bring an vital point of how communist win the civil war: ECONOMY. China was like 95 percent farmer and only 3 percent worker. There is no industry and only produce are agriculture sector. And KMT’s big 4 family signed comprador treaties to let foreign goods flow into China with minimum import tax, which kills any domestic industry. And because KMT’s 51% tax are from import tax, that means they are willing to follow the interests of foreign colonizer on market control. This is important there was no industrialization and every industrial goods like machine or medicine are imported. So the economy model at that time was comprador/ landlords who sell out farmer's surplus to trade industrial goods from imperialists. basically the loop : imperialists exploit local comprador, and local comprador exploit landlord, and land lord exploit peasants. Therefore that’s how Maozedong's thought deviated from western marxism. Since there is no industry set in China, and only labor and resources are taken by colonizers. Therefore knocking down capitalism doesn't provide industrialization. Therefore, Mao’s policy is essentially is to use the surplus of the farmer to create the domestic industries and working class first. One prominent example is Mao's method of giving land to peasants. Which angered other communist colleges who studied in soviet and followed a “orthodontic marxism”. They criticize Mao for “capitalizing the farmers”. (btw, he changed conscript policy to volunteer red army policy. but red army still quadrupled under him, because now farmers are defending their own property). Mao rooted deep in villages and encircle the city from village, and since all raw material and veggie/ grain/food in the city comes from village, Just like how US weaponize the patro dollar, Mao able to weaponize the all village production by anchor the CPC currency to village productions exchanged in villages. compared with KMT's inflating bills (they actually have a 6 million paper money, and it can only buy one carrot). In the KMT's later age in mainland, even KMT have to store CPC's soviet currency if they want to buy foods. and by then, CPC can print money to manipulate KMT's city economy. Also Mao welcomed cooperation with domestic patratoit industry capitalist if CPC was able to constrain them. Which got him criticized by other communists as a right winger and almost got expelled from the party three times in the early age of CPC. But later, those capitalists quickly got into CPC's industry and even able to export the products for goods (like medicine/weapons) that blockade by KMT. there are even KMT officials/ capitalist who want to start their own company defect to communist because KMT’s import policy kills all domestic industry. It is very rare for a communist got support from all the classes

Roosevelt wanting to hand French Indochina over to China is probably the worst thing he could've suggested in that situation.

When it comes to Manchuria's industry, you failed to mention that the Soviets had stolen a lot of it, leaving the cities kind of worthless for the KMT who got to occupy them in many ways. instead of being able to take advantage of their industries and produce guns and such locally, they had to transport them from the war torn cities of East and South China

Ok you really exaggerated Daili's importance. He definitely did not have enough influence to stop US aid to nationalist China. Chiang's biggest mistake was overextending his army into the north east region (Manchuria) of China. It was far from his power base, and bogged down his army. While the CCP had support from neighbouring North Korea and USSR. It was an unfavourable battlefield for the KMT.

Please MORE of this series. Please don't stop at 8. Please make it like 500 series. This is my favorite series from you by far. Keep it up please

Seems like Mao didn't need to do much except watch the KMT turn everyone against them

Mao did some trolling

My grandfather was a kmt lieutenant colonel who went to Taiwan and waited to come back to China his whole life after the communists killed his family because they were land owners. Pretty sure he hated the kmt at the end because they were so hopeless.

@25:00 ....what? The people didn't take up arms to defend the landlords😮😮