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The Shanghai purge
12 Apr 1927 — Chiang turns on his communist allies: Green Gang enforcers and soldiers kill hundreds of unionists and militants in a morning, thousands in the weeks after, here and across the south. The First United Front dies in its victory. Remember the date — everything after 1927 follows from it.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — The Purge and the Nanjing Decade in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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