What if the Communists Lost the Chinese Civil War?

So yeah. Rome Part III is dead. Here's why. I worked on the damn idea for three months, but sometimes these things are just dead ends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3unEvQ3uKrM&feature=youtu.be

Kim Jong Un would work at McDonald's in Pyongyang

That Korean War animation was pretty cool. The guy who made it must be awesome.

China had three "great" options, authoritarianism under the KMT, authoritarianism under the Emperor, authoritarianism under the communists, wonderful

10:44 “But gradually shifts to democracy” Shows russian elections That’s the humor right here

If this happened in real life and someone made a video „What if Communists won the Chinese Civil War” everyone would call it unrealistic

Nothing would change about June 5, 1989 because nothing happened on that date in our timeline anyway

One thing to add: The Kuomintang was NOTORIOUSLY corrupt. That's largely the reason the communits were able to gather a foothold among the people in the first place. There's no reason to think that a Kuomintang victorious over the communists would be any different. Perhaps, fearing another uprising, they'd add even more brutality to that corruption. I think that really affects the outcome of this sort of timeline.

My great-grandfathers were NRA soldiers who fought for the Nationalists. They fought in the civil war. Great-grandpa on mom’s side, a stretcher-bearer, was at Jinan, the first of the “three great battles”. The commander of the outer defense, Wu Huawen, defected to the communists with 20,000 men. Great Grandpa broke out of the encirclement with his platoon leader and some others and vanished in the night. When Chiang Kai Shek escaped to Taiwan, my grandpa’s name wasn’t on the roster.

Animation 101 teacher: here’s how to symbolize a character dying, turns upside down and sets them on fire perfect!

Modern China: “I am inevitable”

An important aspect that was overlooked here is that Mao had already begun to destroy the feudal structures during the civil war. This approach secured him the support of the rural population. At that time, 90% of the population were tenant farmers who worked on the lands of a few but enormously wealthy large landowners. Many farmers lived in debt slavery for generations. The Kuomintang, on the other hand, was financially dependent on this powerful gentry. However, the abolition of feudal structures is an important prerequisite for an industrialization process. It is questionable whether the Kuomintang could implement such a complex reform (it is actually a transformation) in such a large country. It is more likely that the gentry would have tried by all means to maintain their power and privileges. Under these conditions, civil wars and the country could be divided up again among local warlords. One must also not forget that the Soviet Union was always interested in weakening China and would certainly have interfered in the internal conflicts. The country would not have settled down for a long time and modernization would certainly not have started sooner

Fun fact: the MLK Memorial in Washington D.C. at 7:46 was actually designed by a Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin, who had also designed some of Mao's statues

Mao: Left-Wing Authoritarianism with sham democracy Chiang: Right-Wing Authoritarianism with sham democracy Sun Yat-Sen: Spins in coffin regardless

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I wouldn’t be so sure about the "at least there wouldn’t have been a famine" part… Mao’s famine is so infamous that people forget the Republic of China also had several famines with millions of deaths. Without massive foreign help, another famine after the war would have been hard to avoid, communism or not.

Saying the Chinese Civil War never ended is like saying the USSR won the winter war.

Cody: "...but gradually shifts to a democracy." Also Cody: shows russian elections

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One BIG, change. China would not have nukes. Since they only developed them with help from the USSR. And that is the difference