The Long March

History.Com (This Day in History) ^ | 10/16/2018 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.

---SNIP--- It was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and marked the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communists.

[Kid Shelleen]

Case study in the fanaticism of the left.

[ifinnegan]

Such huge propagandizing and myth making by the Communists about this.

[YogicCowboy]

Not as long as the century-long March through the Institutions by the Frankfurt School.

[T-Bone Texan]

I read that the Long March was a way for Mao to kill off his rivals via exhaustion, and it did.