Posted by Yutopian (66.12.27.234) on March 20, 2001 at 20:02:50:
In Reply to: CCP victory in 1949 posted by champ on March 20, 2001 at 01:28:50:
: This question relates to the CCP's victory in 1949 and the failure of the GMD. If this interests you as it does me, do you think their victory was more because the GMD was too weak or was it because they were too strong a party to be defeated by any party as strong as the GMD?
: Your help in evaluating this question would be very much appreciated.
The GuoMing Party was out-numbered by the Communist Party,
as there are always more poor than rich. However, the GuoMing Party
was backed by the US and would have more advanced weapons. Unfortunately,
Unfortunately, the GMD was allegedly corrupted and the funds from US never
made it to the battle fields.