Chiang Kai-shek purges communists in Shanghai
April 12, 1927
After cooperating with Chinese communists against the warlords, Chiang Kai-shek turned on his allies in Shanghai, using Green Gang gangsters and Nationalist troops to slaughter thousands of labor organizers and party members in a single bloody week. The first united front was over. The Chinese Communist Party went underground and to the countryside, where Mao was waiting.
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