On this day in 1931, with the Soviet Union’s help, the “Chinese Soviet Republic” was founded by the Communist Party of China, establishing its own bank, printing its own money, and collecting its own taxes.

At the time, the majority of China was still under the control of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China. On November 7th, communists held an open ceremony and military parade for the new country, attended by Mao Zedong.

Central Revolutionary Base, commonly called the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet, was the largest component territory of the Chinese Soviet Republic and served as the county seat and headquarters of the Chinese Soviet government.

The Jiangxi-Fujian base area was defended ably by the First Red Front Army, but in 1934 it was finally overrun by the Kuomintang government’s National Revolutionary Army in the Fifth of its Encirclement Campaigns.

This last campaign in 1934-35 precipitated the most famous of the communist army retreats, known as the “Long March”.

Map of the various soviets comprising the Chinese Soviet Republic and the route of the Long March

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Soviet_Republic

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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    8 小时前

    My work bff had finally hunkered down and watched more of the 79 Gundam, which is good cause i’m making him a Gunpla display of this scene for Christmas:

    I got a grunt Zaku and knowing he kmew what it was asked for a customization idea and he said beam saber through the cockpit, so I got another Zaku and another grandpa.

    Where a couple co-workers revealed they liked Rise of Skywalker the topic of Star Wars came back up and I kinds realized Zeta Gundam would have been a perfect model to follow for Star Wars prequels and made him more excited to get thought 79 and check out Zeta. I mentioned it was the OG legacy sequel and the one that nailed it cause it had no internal reverence for the source material. Amuro and Luke arent really that different in Zeta or the Sequels. I mentioned the Titans and spoiled Stardust Memory and he agreed that would also make sense for a post rebel victory government and then the first order could be like neo zeon just kinda vibing while they fight each other.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    9 小时前

    Another thing my scholarly co worker asked today “in the 18th century would you rather be old money or new money?” I think this was his versiom of trying to sound smart and he forgot thar the 18th century is the 1700s not the 1800s which makes a pretty big difference considering the aristocracy was old money and the emerging capitalist class was the new money and being a 1700s aristocrat seems a lot easier than starting the east indian trading company, being born into money takes no effort. If he meant the 1800s that would be like…southern planters vs northern industrialist for america but we’re canadian so you’d have your railroad and oil tycoons and then our old money guys still lived in England cause we were still shipping them taxes. Upon further clarification I think he meant turn of the 19th century where it isn’t really even a question, it’s asking whether you would like to be rich and keep getting richer or be bleeding money

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    10 小时前

    Big shoutout to the contradictions of capital and the slopification of art for making being on my phone so nauseating that putting it down and doing something irl becomes the more rational short term dopamine seeking behavior