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Chapter XXXVI

The communists and the nationalists of the Kuomintang, explained us the kâulikas of
Sining, even if they fought united against the Japanese, sustained harsh struggles within them
in the inner regions of China. Japon controlled the entire oriental coast, at the south of
Canton, and it occupied so important cities as Shanghai, Nankin, Hankou, Pekin, etc. But never
has been easy to seize from China: countless cities were dominated by the troops of Chiang Kai-
Shek while the communists were notably strong in the campaign, where they counted with the
unconditional sympathy of the Chinese peasantry; this was not the result of 20 years of
proselytism in the field, contradicting the postulates of the Marxism-Lenilism that affirmed
the revolutionary primacy of the proletariat or urban work class: such tactical-political success
was the work of Mao Tse Tung; and thus a small movement of guerrillas, which started in the
austral provinces of Kiangsi and Fukien, and was extended to the centric Szechwan after the
«long march», now was a irregular and powerful military force that has under its control three
other provinces, around the Yenan: Shensi, Ningshia, and Kansu, the province in which we
were.

That meant that communists prevailed in the field and watched the paths of such
region. Otherwise, the forces of Chiang Kai Shek, strong in the cities, also patrolled the paths,
harassing some times with the communits. This situation meant secure risks for whom tried to
travel to the East without being enrolled in any of the sides in conflict. The Shivaguru of Sining
proposed us a manner to arrive to Shanghai:

–As you don’t consider the Japanese your enemies, I am going to suggest you the
manner to catch them without being killed by the communists or the nationalists. Some
months ago that would have been very simple taking the Northeastern path and taking
adventage from the navigable stretchs of the Yellow River. But now a terrible disgrace has
occurred that has turned that region impassable: the Tung Chih Chiang Kai-Shek, that Kuan
Yin be mercy of his passionate heart, he has just exploded the levees of the river Hoang-Ho to
stop the advance of the Japanese, but such action has costed a terrible sacrifice of innocent
Chinese lives.

In fact, neffe: in 1938, Chiang inundated the valley of the Yellow River and condemned
the throng of 880.000 people to die drowned. Yes, almost a million of deads by just one order:
and I have not known that anyone promoted him a judgement for «crimes against the
humanity», in 1945. If that has not occurred it will have to be admitted that he was acquitted

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