Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20140606211304/@comment-32656-20140702031327

1927 matters very little, truth be told, in this discussion.

Wrong. The USSR recognized the RoC in 1924, and had been a diplomatic supporter for three years before that.

Would be much more accurate to call the Nationalists fascist - not that they were - than socialist.

If they didn't do it in 1927? Happens a few years later.

True, catching all of those leaders in 1927 would end the communists. Bet on what amounts to a civil war between the members of the KMT later, though, in that context. Ending them in the 1930s before or during the March would be better.

Yeah, most of Manchuria is Chinese. Though you are right in that he should have planned that better.