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Ep 4 – All Smedleys Considered

Let's Start a Coup!

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Did You Say Your Dad Died?

Chang Kai Shek's nationalist forces were purging communists, or anybody who had even a hint of radical sympathy. I remember Chang Kai Shek put together a murder squad to purge a neighborhood in Shanghai. They killed women with bobbed hair and unbound feet because those were signs of radicalization hung them from the city gates as a warning. When he was done in Shanghai, Chang took that brand of slaughter all over the country. The truly fucked up thing about the scenario is that the Western powers who carved up China for profit had everything to do with what was happening.

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