>The thought of Chinese unification under COMMUNISM in the year 194x was absolutely unthinkable, IMPOSSIBLE, it's fucking crazy what Mao Zedong accomplished.
>COMMUNISM, an ideology originated from Western Europe, travelled all the way to China, the Chinese Communist Party was created with only 50-60 members, they recruited millions of men and won a civil war, and now they rule one of the greatest countries in the world, what are the odds?
>and of course it was made possible by A SINGLE MAN, Mao Zedong, without him nothing of this would be possible, he's even more admirable than Bismarck in my opinion, the concept of German unification was there, people expected it, but the concept of Chinese unification UNDER COMMUNISM? literally nobody back then could've predicted it, the chance was less than 1%, that's how crazy communist China is.
>Maybe we're living in an anomaly timeline, who knows?
Been reading on this topic, so it's quite fun to debate. In simple terms, the CCP won because the Kuomintang governed so poorly, the Japanese invaded at an inopportune time, and then the Americans did not counter Stalin's military aid following the second world war. There were multiple moments when the CCP was finished in china. 1st- when they rose to prominence on the coattails of the KMT through a merger and then were brutally purged by Chiang. 2nd