aquauant
Junior Member
I was always taught in school that the Nationist was corrupt and avoided to fight the japanese, and the chinese communists bore most of the war burden and they were the heroes of the resistance war
... until I check up the wiki
"Leaving aside Nationalists sources, scholars researching third party Japanese and Soviet sources have documented quite a different view. Such studies claim that the Communists actually played a minuscule involvement in the war against the Japanese compared to the Nationalists and used guerrilla warfare as well as opium sales to preserve its strength for a final showdown with the Kuomintang.....
According to these third-party scholars, the Communists were not the main participants in any of the 22 major battles, most involving more than 100,000 troops on both sides, between China and Japan. Soviet liaison to the Chinese Communists Peter Vladimirov documented that he never once found the Chinese Communists and Japanese engaged in battle during the period from 1942 to 1945. He also expressed frustration at not being allowed by the Chinese Communists to visit the frontline,[5] although as a foreign diplomat Vladimirov may have been overly optimistic to expect to be allowed to join Chinese guerrilla sorties. The Communists usually avoided open warfare (the Hundred Regiments Campaign and the Battle of Pingxingguan are notable exceptions), preferring to fight in small squads to harass the Japanese supply lines. In comparison, right from the beginning of the war the Nationalists committed their best troops (including the 36th, 83rd, 88th divisions, the crack divisions of Chiang's Central Army) to defend Shanghai from the Japanese, a third of whom were killed or wounded. The Japanese considered the Kuomintang rather than the Communists as their main enemy[6] and bombed the Nationalist wartime capital of Chongqing to the point that it was the most heavily bombed city in the world to date.[7] Also, the main bulk of Japanese forces were fighting mainly in Central and Southern China, away from major Communist strongholds such as those in Shaanxi."
Of course, one must not rely on wiki, an open-pedia, for fact. But it does the show the battle details and where-and-who fought against the Japanese and the article seems to be balanced.
If the wiki's viewpoint is true and given that KMT was not known to be an effective fighting force (comparing to allied forces at the time,such as russian soldiers), then the communist's war effort was really largely a myth and propaganda.
what a bummer to realize people have been lying to you for half of your life.
... until I check up the wiki
"Leaving aside Nationalists sources, scholars researching third party Japanese and Soviet sources have documented quite a different view. Such studies claim that the Communists actually played a minuscule involvement in the war against the Japanese compared to the Nationalists and used guerrilla warfare as well as opium sales to preserve its strength for a final showdown with the Kuomintang.....
According to these third-party scholars, the Communists were not the main participants in any of the 22 major battles, most involving more than 100,000 troops on both sides, between China and Japan. Soviet liaison to the Chinese Communists Peter Vladimirov documented that he never once found the Chinese Communists and Japanese engaged in battle during the period from 1942 to 1945. He also expressed frustration at not being allowed by the Chinese Communists to visit the frontline,[5] although as a foreign diplomat Vladimirov may have been overly optimistic to expect to be allowed to join Chinese guerrilla sorties. The Communists usually avoided open warfare (the Hundred Regiments Campaign and the Battle of Pingxingguan are notable exceptions), preferring to fight in small squads to harass the Japanese supply lines. In comparison, right from the beginning of the war the Nationalists committed their best troops (including the 36th, 83rd, 88th divisions, the crack divisions of Chiang's Central Army) to defend Shanghai from the Japanese, a third of whom were killed or wounded. The Japanese considered the Kuomintang rather than the Communists as their main enemy[6] and bombed the Nationalist wartime capital of Chongqing to the point that it was the most heavily bombed city in the world to date.[7] Also, the main bulk of Japanese forces were fighting mainly in Central and Southern China, away from major Communist strongholds such as those in Shaanxi."
Of course, one must not rely on wiki, an open-pedia, for fact. But it does the show the battle details and where-and-who fought against the Japanese and the article seems to be balanced.
If the wiki's viewpoint is true and given that KMT was not known to be an effective fighting force (comparing to allied forces at the time,such as russian soldiers), then the communist's war effort was really largely a myth and propaganda.
what a bummer to realize people have been lying to you for half of your life.
