In the spring and summer of 1945, the international situation was very good. "Little Japan is the tail of a rabbit—it won't grow any longer!" The world!" In another political center of China, the giants of Yan'an, the red capital, are also optimistic about the fertile black land.Mao Zedong said: "If we lose all our existing base areas, as long as we have the Northeast, then the Chinese revolution will have a solid foundation." In history, once some little-known tribal leaders rose between the white mountains and black waters, they suddenly possessed the magical power to conquer the world. In the 1940s, the Northeast’s material strength was unmatched by previous dynasties. It not only had China’s largest “granary” and “Linhai”, but also China’s largest industrial base. Half of the total, steel production accounts for 90%, cement production accounts for 70%, power generation accounts for 80%...

Whoever has such a strong "economic foundation" will be able to establish his own "superstructure" in the land of China. Therefore, as soon as the Anti-Japanese War was over, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began the great competition in the Kanto region.Chiang Kai-shek put hundreds of thousands of elite troops on a desperate gamble. He lost the Northeast in this political gamble, and then lost the entire Chiang dynasty.Mao Zedong invested 100,000 troops and 20,000 cadres at the beginning. After four years of arduous struggle, he finally fulfilled the prophecy that "the one who wins the Northeast wins the world".

The "seven no" (no party organization, no masses, no political power, no food, no funds, no medicine, no clothes, shoes and socks) troops when they entered the Guandong, grew into an invincible army of millions in a flash, like a hurricane It quickly swept through the black land, embarked on the old road of Wanyan Aguda and Dorgon conquering the pass, and swept most of China from the battle of Baishan and Heishui to the ends of the world. The rise of the new China caused the Western powers to lose all the privileges they had enjoyed in China for a century, and they sadly reviewed their responsibilities for "losing China".At that time, the U.S. Consulate General in Tianjin reported to the Washington authorities that the Northeast People's Liberation Army that invaded Tianjin used all sophisticated American weapons and equipment.The U.S. published the "White Paper on Sino-U.S. Relations" and shifted the responsibility to Chiang Kai-shek, who couldn't help himself. It was this unsupportable adou who caused the Western world to lose Asia's largest market and a "loyal ally."

After Chiang Kai-shek "exiled" himself to the island of Taiwan, after deep introspection, he wrote a review book "Soviet Russia in China", shifting the responsibility for the failure to "Soviet Russia". It is true that the Chinese Civil War had a background of fierce confrontation between the two camps of the East and the West. As Mao Zedong said: "The Kuomintang and the Communist Party reflect the United States and the Soviet Union." complex international factors.The successive declassification of Soviet archives has enabled us to stand at a new height and re-examine those historical doubts and difficulties with a broader perspective and open thinking, such as the dispute over the route and policy in the early days of the Northeast Liberation War, whether the Siping Defense War should be fight fights, and more.If these questions are not investigated in connection with the complex and ever-changing international and domestic situation, but are isolated to a corner of the Northeast and discussed as they are, the correct answer will certainly not be obtained.

There is no doubt that both the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in the Chinese Civil War to varying degrees, either explicitly or covertly.China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Chongqing, Yan'an, Washington, and Moscow, for their own interests, played complex roles full of contradictions in this climactic war drama.The competition between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party became the most eye-catching hotspot in the early days of the Cold War, reflecting the distinctive features of the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.At the same time, national interests and class interests are intricately intertwined, which makes the Chinese civil war different from the "proxy war" of the Cold War era.The United States and the Soviet Union had only influence over which side they supported, but had no decision-making power. They quickly lost control of the situation and became helpless.Even within each camp, it is also full of sharp contradictions and mutual suspicion.Marshall was the greatest strategist of the Allied forces during the Second World War. How confident he was when he first arrived in China, but he could only return to his hometown in frustration in the end.This five-star general who had seen through Chiang Kai-shek became the Secretary of State after returning to China. He controlled the Truman administration's China policy, which made Chiang Kai-shek a big headache.Disappointed Chiang Kai-shek donated a lot of money to support New York State Governor Dewey in the 1948 US election.Within the eastern camp, there has always been distrust of the CCP. Similarly, in 1948, when the Chinese revolution was victorious, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were openly discussing that "Mao Zedong is the second Tito."These examples illustrate that it was not external factors that played a decisive role in China's civil war.

This civil war eventually evolved into a war of liberation for the Chinese people. It did not depend on the will of foreigners, but developed according to the laws of the Chinese revolution itself.The outcome of the war changed the balance of power between the two camps, the East and the West, and almost shook the world structure established by the Yalta system. It once caused great panic in the Western camp and shocked the unprepared Eastern camp. When the "Big Three" of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill divided the world's spheres of influence in the name of rebuilding the post-war order in Yalta, no one expected such a dramatic scene in the Far East.