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What's the deal with Stalin?
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This can literally be summed up as he was more worried of fighting a war on two fronts, meaning a japanese invasion from occupied Manchuria. Do you think it makes more sense to unconditionally support a weakened CPC after their long march into a war with Republican China with the goddamn japanese wolves on everyone's doorstep? Do you think it makes sense to sink more resources into the losing Spanish Republican civil war after the western powers have completely turned their backs on it and the fascist states were ramping up their support?
No. You do as Stalin did, cut your losses in Spain, promote a cessation of hostilities and a united front with your eastern neighbors and secure a pact of non-aggression against the Japanese Imperialist dogs, all so you can focus your efforts on the coming nazi war machine.
This.
Reading Stalin's letters with Dimitrov has driven home how much they tried to create a united front in Spain and made sacrifices to better the situation there, only for it not to be enough. Stalin was in no way going to let China be lost to Japan, a way bigger threat to Mongolia and the USSR by the way. Mao and him go back and forth a LOT on splitting particularly with what ended up being the destruction of the 4th army.
Mao was correct not to trust the KMT in that case, but the Comintern was right to pressure them and the KMT to work together despite that. It was not something as clear cut as sending more rifles in HOI
Where can you find these letters of Stalin about the Spanish Civil War?
https://www.amazon.com/Dimitrov-Stalin-1934-1943-Archives-Communism/dp/0300080212
picked it up at a half-price books
Thanks, comrade!