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
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
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
Otto Braun (communist)
…attacks on the CCP in urban areas. Its forces came near to Ruijin, which was in danger of being surrounded and became untenable. The CCP initiated the Long March to escape this danger. Braun, under his assumed Chinese name "Li De", was nearly the only foreigner to participate in the Long March and might have…
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