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Communist-nationalist alliance breaks up (china.org.cn) Updated: 2004-06-25 14:52 The Chinese Communist Party had its origins in
1921. The shaky alliance with the Nationalist Party headed by Chiang Kaishek
came to a halt on the morning of April 12th, 1927 with a feast of heads.
Thousands perished. Some were shot; some beheaded; some hurled alive into the
glowing furnaces of steam locomotives. So many heads were chopped off that the
weary arms could hardly raise their great scimitars from their sides. What few
escaped, including Zhou Enlai fled to the west to Jiangxi Province. The
remoteness of Jiangxi was so great in the 1930s that the government had almost
no control over this area. Roadless, as was most of China in those years, it was
traversed only by mountain footpaths by people carrying bundles on their backs,
horse-and-mule caravans, single file, too narrow for even carts, made Jiangxi a
haven for rebellion. Everywhere flourished illiteracy, disease, poverty, and
ignorance. It was here that Mao Zedong set up his new Soviet Communist zone.
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