On the 12th of april in 1927, Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-Shek carried out the Shanghai Massacre, attacking and disarming workers' militias by force, resulting in more than 300 people being killed or wounded.
This incident marked the beginning of a campaign of violent suppression of Chinese communists by conservative factions in the Kuomintang, killing 300,000 people over the course of three years.
The Shanghai Massacre began before dawn, when nationalist troops began to attack district offices controlled by the union workers. Under an emergency decree, Chiang then ordered the 26th Army to disarm the workers' militias.
The union workers organized a mass meeting denouncing Chiang Kai-shek the next day, and thousands of workers and students went to the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the 26th Army to protest. Soldiers opened fire, killing 100 and wounding many more.
This incident marked the beginning of a prolonged purge of communists from the Wuhan province, and the ensuing violence killed over 300,000 people in less than three years. Stalin offered his support, sending a telegram to the Chinese communists on June 1st, urging them to organize militarily against the state.
The events of April 1927 prompted the Comintern in Moscow to break ties with the Guomindang. It also triggered in-fighting between communists and left-wing nationalists in Wuhan that contributed to the collapse of Wang Jingwei’s government there. By late summer 1927, right-wing nationalists were ascendant in the Guomindang and Chiang Kai-Shek had emerged as the dominant republican leader of China.
Thousands of communists were forced underground in the cities or dispersed to rural areas. Some attempted to fight back. In response to the Shanghai massacre, on August 1st, 1927, the Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang against the Nationalist Wuhan government, which had previously been sympathetic to the Communists. The conflict meant that the Wuhan government and Chiang were once again aligned to crush the CCP.
This period is also acknowledged to have seen the emergence of the CCP’s “Red Army,” comprised of armed peasants and former nationalist soldiers. Despite KMT efforts to suppress the CCP forces, the communists successfully established control over many areas in southern China after attacks on cities such as Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou. In September, the leader of the Wuhan government, Wang Jingwei, was forced into exile.
By this point, three capitals were in effect across China: internationally-recognized Beijing, the KMT regime in Nanjing, and CCP-held Wuhan. This marked the start of a decade-long struggle known as the Ten-Year Civil War.
A large group in southern China led by Mao Zedong established a base in the remote Jinggang Mountains. A Kuomintang counterinsurgency campaign forced Mao and his group to relocate once again, and they moved into the border region between Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.
In order to rebuild the party's strength, the 6th National Congress ordered these rural cadres to organize soviet governments. Mao's group founded the Jiangxi Soviet, which became the largest and best administered soviet thanks to the number of Communist cadres from across the country that took refuge there. Although the Central Committee of the Communist Party was still underground in Shanghai during this period, the center of political gravity had begun to shift to Mao in Jiangxi.
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is it possible for other people to go drinking without ending the night screaming at each other, or is everyone around me incredibly toxic? i hate being designated driver, i hate being the only person here that doesn't like alcohol, and i absolutely hate when people i care about are fighting and i can't do anything about it. these screaming matches are really triggering my PTSD, i really don't like loud noises and especially shouting. it makes it harder to focus on driving, and when we get back i just spend all night worrying one of them will hurt themselves or worse, each other, as i try to ignore the sounds of conflict. they are both autistic and have ADHD and are also prone to hitting walls or themselves (never each other AFAIK) while they scream and it sounds like abuse through the walls, and i know if i ask about it they will both just be upset at me. i'm kind of in a psuedo-landlord position over them as a friend that lets them live with me in a parent's house, but i don't want to throw them out, one of them is my best friend, i don't charge rent, all i ask is that they share weed i help them get, and i drive them both to work every day (until one got fired recently) without charging for gas or anything, and i don't want to be responsible for people being homeless, especially people i care about (they are fun when they are not fighting! and they even have takes i agree with on politics). i just don't know if i can sustain this mentally, at least once or twice every week these two are screaming at each other and then the next day everything is fine. i don't understand or know how to handle this. one of them apparently had a photo messaging app the other didn't know about and was maybe using it to flirt with other people at a bar i dropped them both off at, at least that's what i gather from what i overhear. one of them is just out of an abusive relationship that ended with the abuser cheating so i understand some suspicion but this is playing out like every movie or TV toxic relationship i've ever seen, guy is upset and jealous and girl is upset and denying it and they are both screaming at each other off and on. i don't want to be selfish but it's hard enough for me on the eternal fulfilling-our-material-needs grind without this shit to deal with. as a pathetic incel loser this makes me not want to be in a romantic or sexual relationship ever. even if i wanted to i couldn't in good conscience bring anyone else into this situation. I can't just cut them out of my life because one of them is my lifelong best friend and we just reconnected last year after i helped them get away from their abuser in their last relationship, which was after like 2 years of mourning the loss of our friendship when i had to stop hanging out with them because they wouldn't listen to me about their abuser. i don't think i would survive losing them again that way, it was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, i had novel mental health symptoms like uncontrollable inappropriate laughter back then. and now here i am trying to keep 2 alcoholics from imploding our living situation. i've been typing this wall of text for like an hour and i'm still hearing crying from both of them. good luck to me and anyone else out there dealing with this kind of stuff.
Yeah, uh, that's bad. Definitely not the the standard in the fairly heavy drinking circle of friends I keep. Good luck, and you don't need to light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.
While yelling at each other isn't the only possible end to a night of drinking it is pretty common but so are toxic relationships. Maybe you should all have a sober discussion about what happened tonight. Not to try to figure out who is at fault or even why it happened but just to figure out how to not do that again.
Yeah you got shit friends