Long March
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The Long March was a military retreat by the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Red Army from advancing Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army during the Chinese Civil War, occurring between October
Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, and Zhu De during the Long March.
The Luding Bridge
Tiger Leaping Gorge in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain massif of western Yunnan province
A Communist leader addressing Long March survivors
Otto Braun (communist)
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Otto Braun was a German communist journalist and functionary of the Communist Party of Germany with a long and varied career. His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to China in 1934 t
Long March
…with heavy losses, and by the time it crossed the Xiang River on 1 December had only 36,000 men left. Its leaders, including Comintern military adviser Otto Braun and Moscow-trained Bo Gu, decided to take the troops through Hunan, but Chiang set up defenses to block their way. Mao Zedong, who was not a member of…
Otto Braun (Li De) in China
Braun (center) at a meeting of German and Soviet writers and scholars at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin, 22 October 1954