I've read that the same thing happened in France: The Communists took the occasion of the Allied victory to finger as "collaborators" their rivals for power. In the case of France, those included mostly Catholic leaders and organizers, who of course had good reason to be both anti-Nazi and anti-Communist. (As opposed to the Communists, who sided with the Nazis until the Soviets were invaded by the Nazis in 1940.)
At the same time, the Communists in the US government made sure the Nationalists in China got no weapons and the Maoists got whatever they needed.
And before that, in the Spanish Civil War, much of the killing was actually Communist forces killing Anarchists troops—their rivals for power. When you have a Communist for an ally, you get a two-fer. A friend now, an enemy soon enough.
On that last, I strongly recommend Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, about his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He almost lost his life to his “allies” the Communists. It’s a short, quick read.
You got links and clarifications on that assertion about US and Mao and the Chiang Kai-sheks
That’s not how I remember it exactly
That, my FRiend, is a money quote! Is that your own?
Yeah...what went on with the Nationalist Chinese and the American government between 1945 and 1949 was shameful.
John Service (Communist mole), Chi Chao-ting (Soviet agent) and Sol Adler (part of the Silvermaster Soviet spy group) all lived together in a house in China, and with the cooperation and approval of General Stillwell, coordinated their missives to their respective bosses back home to make sure the same anti-Chiang and pro-Yenan message was being pounded home from various angles in complete harmony with each other. All this aided at home by the likes of John Paton Davies, Harry Dexter White, Laughlin Currie and Alger Hiss.
All these Soviet agents and sympathizers hammered the upper level decision makers in the US government with the message that the Nationalists were corrupt collaborators with the Japanese, and that we should jettison them and have close ties with the Communists.
They did such a good job, all of them, that the victory of the Communists in 1949 was guaranteed. The massive gold loan approved by Henry Morgenthau was obstructed to the point it would have never helped, the arms and other war fighting materials were thrown over the sides of ships, planes, guns, ammo, etc, all this was the work of these scumbags.