Historical Picture of the Day- Mao Zedong on "The Long March" 10/16/1934

       
        Today in history marks the beginning of "The Long March", October 16, 1934. At the time, Chi-Comms, or Chinese communists, were forced to flee the national provisional government of China, retreating as a series of marches which nearly doubled in distance from New York to San Francisco. They fled to remote western enclaves within China, where they were allowed to regroup for a time. Purely Stalinist in its model, the Chinese communists mirrored the entire system of government of the Soviet Union. Still in its infant stage, the Chinese Red Army would not come to power until after the Second World War, on October 10, 1949.