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Originally posted by Spanky
In addition, if we had taken out the communist regime in Russia, I think we could have prevented China falling to the communists.
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No fucking way. Mao controlled more than half the country by the time we got the bomb, and the KMT (which, interestingly, had Soviet support initially in its struggles with Mao) was toast by the time the war was over. All of those millions of US trained and equiped troops so lovingly pictured in Life melted away because Chaing's generals were too busy running their black market businesses to actually fight a war.
