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Mao saw things differently.  Mao viewed the regime he was trying to topple as corrupt and without popular support.  He called it a "paper tiger."  Mao didn't need to "organize" factory workers and students to spread discontent, the Republic of China had been fighting a war with [[Japan]] for 15 years already.  The people of China had endured many hardships while Chiang Kai-shek fought two wars simultaneously, one against the Empire of Japan and one against the forces of the Far Eastern [[Comintern]] headed by Mao.  Additionally, the regime under Chaing kai-shek was demoralized and corrupt. Mao hide out in the hills with a band of [[guerilla]]s.  Mao felt he could by-pass his instructions from [[Moscow]] to organize the workers for revolution, and swoop down on the cities when the time was right and power would fall into his hands.

Mao saw things differently.  Mao viewed the regime he was trying to topple as corrupt and without popular support.  He called it a "paper tiger."  Mao didn't need to "organize" factory workers and students to spread discontent, the Republic of China had been fighting a war with [[Japan]] for 15 years already.  The people of China had endured many hardships while Chiang Kai-shek fought two wars simultaneously, one against the Empire of Japan and one against the forces of the Far Eastern [[Comintern]] headed by Mao.  Additionally, the regime under Chaing kai-shek was demoralized and corrupt. Mao hide out in the hills with a band of [[guerilla]]s.  Mao felt he could by-pass his instructions from [[Moscow]] to organize the workers for revolution, and swoop down on the cities when the time was right and power would fall into his hands.

Mao's innovation was successful in 1949. The strategy was replicated by [[Fidel Castro]] ten years later in [[Cuba]] against the "paper tiger" regime of [[Fulgencio Batista]].  The [[Sino-Soviet split]] of 1962 had ramifications worldwide for communist parties which were taking money and instructions from the [[Soviet Union]] to bring about the worldwide workers revolution. The [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) was affected, as well.  But a historical anomaly occurred which was little understand then outside of communist circles, and remains little understood today even in academia.

Mao's innovation was successful in 1949. The strategy was replicated by [[Fidel Castro]] ten years later in [[Cuba]] against the "paper tiger" regime of [[Fulgencio Batista]].  The [[Sino-Soviet split]] of 1962 had ramifications worldwide for communist parties which were taking money and instructions from the [[Soviet Union]] to bring about the worldwide workers revolution. The [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) was affected, as well.  But a historical anomaly occurred which was little understood then outside of communist circles, and remains little understood today even in academia.

===The Cuban revolution===

===The Cuban revolution===