Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery here, bringing you the next episode of the China History

Podcast.

I promise, no more horsing around with meaningless banter from your humble narrator.

We're going to go right into the Chinese history.

In this episode, we're going to look at a day that lives in infamy as one of the darkest hours of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party.

In April of 1927, after pretending to be BFFs with the CCP,

Junky Shaq decides to rub them out and purge the KMT

of all communists and whatever leftist sympathizers he could get along the way.

Everybody.

All these trade unionists, anyone who was out on the streets

are involved and communist-sponsored activities, whoever wasn't for the right wing of the

KMT, in other words, the time had come to deal with them decisively. Events had transpired between 1925 and 1927 that at last was forcing

the hand of the sinister Jiang Kaishek to choose his fate.

So today we focus in on the Su I R.

Van Go Ming, Cheng Bien, also known in the Chinese history books as the Siyi Arts Han An, the 4-12 anti-revolutionary

incident and the 4-12 tragedy. Of course the

kMT have other names for this moment in history they might refer to it as the

Chingdong or purifying the party or purging the party.

In the English history books, this incident is usually known as either the White Terror, the

412 incident, or the Shanghai Massacre.

As the name suggests, it happened on 412, that is, April 12.

1927 was a year of upheaval in China. The honeymoon, if there ever was one between the left and right wing factions of the KMT, was definitely coming to a close.

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