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So the US spent a great deal of money propping up Chiang Kai-Shek,
所以美国花了大量的钱财来支持蒋介石
the Soviets spent a great deal of money ropping up Mao Zedong, Mao won.
而苏联也花了大量的钱财来支持毛泽东，后来毛泽东胜利了
In Hindsight the nationalists of Chiang Kai-Shek were just too brutal and too corrupt to rule a country China's size.
事后看来，蒋介石的国民党过于残暴和腐败，无法统治辽阔的中国
Mao and the red Chinese were just as brutal but like their Soviet advisors
毛泽东和其红色政权和其苏联老大哥同样残暴
they had the advantages of strong leadership, disciplined followers and clear objectives.
但是他们有着很强的领导优势、纪律严明的支持者和明确的目标
In Peking on October 1st 1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China.
1949年10月1日，在北京毛泽东宣布了中华人民共和国的成立
On December 10th 1949 the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan where it continues to this day.
在1949年12月10日，蒋介石及其民国政府逃到台湾，至今仍驻守在那里
Yet Red China never became the client state that Stalin had hoped for.
然而红色中国从未成为如斯大林所期待的附庸国
From the start the Chinese showed an independent streak suiting a nation so much older than Russia,
从一开始，中国人就展示出一种治理一个比苏联古老许多的国家的独立的方法
Mao paid lip service to Stalin as a leader of world communism
毛泽东在口头上服从世界共产主义的领导人斯大林
but he was hard at work at building a Chinese form of communism for Chinese realities.
但是他却努力在建设符合中国国情的中国式共产主义
A home grown communist movement had also sprung up in Korea,
一场自主共产主义运动也在朝鲜展开
after the Japanese surrender Korea was divided along the 38th Parallel into a communist north and a democratic south.
日本投降后，朝鲜半岛以三八线为界分为共产主义的北边和民主的南边
