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moondani kyema, My Story - Ray Moore 14
The year before I was born saw the beginning of the famous Communist Long March.
Over a number of years the Communists had been holed up in special safe places or
soviets, mostly in the southern areas of China. But by 1934 the Government had
stepped up their activities and the Communists were being partially surrounded and
trapped in their now not-so-safe soviet retreats by the Nationalist Kuomintang, led by
Chiang Kai-shek. Threatened with extermination by the better-led and more
numerous Kuomintang, the Communists fled west and north. They were aiming for
Hanzhong
an area in northern Shaanxi province around the city of Yan’an. This area had been
ruled by a number of warlords who were fighting the Government and were
sympathetic to the Communists. They handed over the area to the Communists
without a fight and it became the ‘birthplace of the Revolution.’
Missionaries were under no illusions as to the Communist attitude towards them.
During the period before the Long March, when Communist forces roamed about in
The year before I was born saw the beginning of the famous Communist Long March.
Over a number of years the Communists had been holed up in special safe places or
soviets, mostly in the southern areas of China. But by 1934 the Government had
stepped up their activities and the Communists were being partially surrounded and
trapped in their now not-so-safe soviet retreats by the Nationalist Kuomintang, led by
Chiang Kai-shek. Threatened with extermination by the better-led and more
numerous Kuomintang, the Communists fled west and north. They were aiming for
Hanzhong
an area in northern Shaanxi province around the city of Yan’an. This area had been
ruled by a number of warlords who were fighting the Government and were
sympathetic to the Communists. They handed over the area to the Communists
without a fight and it became the ‘birthplace of the Revolution.’
Missionaries were under no illusions as to the Communist attitude towards them.
During the period before the Long March, when Communist forces roamed about in
