Were the kuomintang the baddies?

>>2730636
Only if you were a commie or a Jap

>>2730636
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood

>>2730636
Chiang Kai-Shek was a bit of a nutter but he was still preferable to the commies desu

>>2730968
They collaborated pretty heavily with the Japanese

>>2731254
they literally fought the Japs for 8 years, with tens of millions of casualties.

>>2730636
Yes they were corrupt and nepotistic, the CPC was the people's choice.

>>2731254
They actually did not do this

>>2730968
Or a villager that happened to have some rice provided by Mao

>>2731432
>implying the KMT had the administrative capabilities to even give a toss about some bumfuck Chinese peasant

>>2731464
They sure beat up an awful lot of them though

>>2731483
that was mostly in the big cities, which the KMT had a strong grip on.

>>2731645
My mistake. Even so, Chiang Kai Shek made MacArthur and Mussolini look like tactical geniuses.

>>2731658
He was a pretty solid commander in the Northern Expedition. He also performed surprisingly well in the Sino-Japanese war, for the appallingly bad situation China was in.

He might've been meme-tier by western standards, but among his fellow Asians he was far from the worst.