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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      FDR on Stalin: "I think that if I give him everything I can and ask of him nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      this is only slightly less stupid than whatever stalin said about hitler as barbarossa was spinning up

      6 replies 10 retweets 338 likes
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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      jesus fucking christ and then at yalta in exchange for russia attacking japan in manchuria FDR sells Chiang down the river and lets russia take china postwar this is insane this fucking guy

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      stalin let mao know about this. at this point mao pulled out of negotiations with the US and the Nationalists

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      FDR didnt even bother telling his China envoy Hurley about this much less Chiang

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      also everyone was a soviet or maoist spyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasia 

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      also the CCP was actively cooperating with the japanese and they locked up american attaches when they found out god i am so mad about this mccarthy was right about everything

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      so ok before taking over europe Marshall tried to reconcile the nationalists and communists in china and did an awful job and Mao ran rings around him Truman didnt want to bail out the KMT, and only did it in '46 after a new Republican Congress insisted

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      meanwhile the KMT is assassinating liberals around china which pisses everyone in the US off

      4 replies 4 retweets 126 likes
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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

      lol Chiang was funding Dewey in '48 and he was shockedpic.twitter.com/oIEyAgoWr8

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

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      this is all from The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by Pomfret https://twitter.com/jelly_petro/status/1399174141958258688 …

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          as Mao started sweeping through China in 1948 he started systematically imprisoning and beating US diplomats, partly to stop them from filing reports that he was getting support from Moscow

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          Dean Acheson, then secretary of state, thought this was all fine because it would let the US disengage from the KMT and then American influence would magically make Mao a happy Westerner he cut off support to the KMT Congress was super pissed

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          pictured: Dean Acheson when Mao signed the Sino-Soviet Treatypic.twitter.com/TZ3iQ5H90q

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          oh interesting during the Korean War, US bombing killed Mao's son, perhaps preventing the formation of a proper dynastyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Anying 

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          as part of the Korean War Era CCP anti-American culture propaganda the Party enlisted hysterical testimonials from Chinese housewives about how Hollywood movies had ruined their lives

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          it didnt work. The People wanted their movies

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          the "china hands" who were obvious communist sympathizers when they weren't operatives were driven out of government by mccarthy they found ready employment in universities where among other things they insisted the Great Leap Forward famines were fake

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          ok this is fun when Korea was winding down it turned out that half of Chinese national POWs wanted to be repatriated Anywhere But China this was a major PR embarrassment for the CCP so they decided to accuse the United States of War Crimes

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          specifically they tortured US POWs to confess to having dropped bugs from airplanes on to Chinese troops an International Body of Experts that was chaired by a China operative found that yes there was Bug Warfare this caused a panic in China and spurred mass adoption of masks

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          "this practice continues today, for different reasons"

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          although 2/3 of Chinese POWs defected, 67 americans did as well this was explained as "brainwashing" (transliteration from Chinese) and spurred US fears of a psychic warfare gap this led directly to MKULTRA

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          the CCP really did this though they were not kind to the psyches of westerners who fell to their tender mercies the broke a daughter of some missionaries who was studying in beijing on a fulbright

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          looooooooool the american Biderman's report described the specific methods used by the CCP to break POWs (they were all just conventional torture) after 9/11 the report was plagiarized and used as the first draft of new US Enhanced Interrogation

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          eigenrobot Retweeted Kautsk(Ian)  🌲 🇵🇸

          the Pinko has found my thread and agents are seeking my death as we speakhttps://twitter.com/SadBoylshevik/status/1399222240403669000 …

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          Kautsk(Ian)  🌲 🇵🇸 @SadBoylshevik
          Replying to @sinofuturist
          I hope this dude gets stabbed in the eye
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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          during the red scare we more or less hounded a remarkably talented Chinese rocket scientist out of the country. upon his return to china he led their nuclear program successfully. very savvy of ushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen …

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        17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          apparently the KMT planted a bomb on the plane carrying china's diplomatic corps to the Bandung Conference (1955) and blew it up over the pacific they only missed Zhou Enlai because he changed flights at the last minute

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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 30

          eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

          oh shit there's speculation his return to china fell out of US-China negotiations where we were trying to split china from the russians. and so we returned him to help them go nuclear who knowshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1399229485900177408 …

          eigenrobot added,

          eigenrobot @eigenrobot
          during the red scare we more or less hounded a remarkably talented Chinese rocket scientist out of the country. upon his return to china he led their nuclear program successfully. very savvy of us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen …
          Show this thread
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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          eisenhower threatened to nuke china on no fewer than eight separate occasions

          5 replies 10 retweets 105 likes
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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          the Kennedy administration proposed to Khrushchev that the USSR acquiesce to US strikes on Chinese nuclear facilities (Khrushchev said no)

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        21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          diplomatic histories have the wildest and most entertaining counterfactuals

          3 replies 2 retweets 96 likes
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        22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          huey p newton when he was taken on a CCP-sponsored tour of china declared that it was the first time in his life that he had felt free

          9 replies 2 retweets 75 likes
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        23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          eigenrobot Retweeted  🌻 🔥

          annals of serbian posadist thoughthttps://twitter.com/ShokuEnver/status/1399212122941313029 …

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           🌻 🔥 @ShokuEnver
          Replying to @Insert_name27
          lmao people still believe this khrushchevite lie https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1399145801822003203?s=20 …
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        24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          eigenrobot Retweeted Dictator Class Cruiser

          apparently later the Soviets wanted to nuke china and Nixon refused because the USSR had to refused to allow it when Kennedy askedhttps://twitter.com/DictatorClass/status/1399290176199790592?s=19 …

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          Dictator Class Cruiser @DictatorClass
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          https://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved-china-soviet-nuclear-attack … Nixon and Kissinger refused because the Soviets refused Kennedy's offer of a joint strike in the 60's
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        25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 31

          eigenrobot Retweeted

          more on Yalta from KB all of this is very hard to evaluate even three quarters of a century out the complexity of the intertwined conflicts that comprised the war era is something else https://twitter.com/KBULTRA0/status/1399409257209020419?s=19 …

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