Oh, and also these earliest Chinese Communists had not much to do with Mao. Many have been murdered by Chiang before they could be even purged by their comrades sooner or later, as was the mentioned Chen who was expelled from the party in 1929 and became an irrelevant Trotskyist. (Voitnitsky himself survived the Soviet purges.)
The Soviets had very good relations with the KMT (known as the "Nationalists" today, but socialists at the time) for most of the time. Stalin himself personally greenlit Chiang to begin the war against Japan and generously supplied him with weapons (in similar way as he later did with Kim and the attack on South Korea). The war was of course an absolute disaster for China, and included such incidents as the KMT killing over 1 million of Chinese civilians with a manmade flood just to slow the Japanese advance. They only really began supporting Mao after Chiang got very close to the Americans after 1941. And Mao, like Tito, never allowed himself to truly become a Soviet vassal.
The Holodomor especially too. Solzhenitsyn explains that well.
When it comes to Communist China some of the people who helped found it are very interesting.
Oh, and also these earliest Chinese Communists had not much to do with Mao. Many have been murdered by Chiang before they could be even purged by their comrades sooner or later, as was the mentioned Chen who was expelled from the party in 1929 and became an irrelevant Trotskyist. (Voitnitsky himself survived the Soviet purges.)
The Soviets had very good relations with the KMT (known as the "Nationalists" today, but socialists at the time) for most of the time. Stalin himself personally greenlit Chiang to begin the war against Japan and generously supplied him with weapons (in similar way as he later did with Kim and the attack on South Korea). The war was of course an absolute disaster for China, and included such incidents as the KMT killing over 1 million of Chinese civilians with a manmade flood just to slow the Japanese advance. They only really began supporting Mao after Chiang got very close to the Americans after 1941. And Mao, like Tito, never allowed himself to truly become a Soviet vassal.
What does a giant retarded bodyslave have to do with China?