Chiang Kai Shek
Captain TOGA:
You asked "What kind of a man was Chiang Kai Shek"? I know something about him and I consider him as an egoistical traitor and a man of greed (which is what we are discussing) . He was a traitor because he failed at a critical time to oppose the Japanese and his greed shows up in the gold bullion and antique treasures he stole from China when he fled to Formosa (Taiwan). There was only one thing good about Chiang Kai Shek and that was his beautiful, svelte English speaking Wellesey College educated wife Soong Mei Ling. Without her he would have been nothing and why she stayed with him through thick and thin is a question that the most knowledgeable of scholars can't answer.
Your summary of events is perfectly correct but it does not take into account the land distribution effect because it was this that induced the peasants to defect to Mao Tze-tung in their millions and thus bring about the defeat of Chiang Kai Shek. ..... Your thoughts.....All the best.
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