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
Zunyi Conference
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The Zunyi Conference was a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in January 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the o
Otto Braun (communist)
…armies to the east. Braun and Bo Gu were still leading the army at this point. In January 1935, after seizing the town of Zunyi, the CCP held the Zunyi Conference to assess their recent defeat. Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai expressed their opposition to Braun, Bo Gu and their tactics. Mao argued that the direct…
Site of the meeting in Zunyi