Soviet Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin making a speech in #Wuhan, China in 1927 when Wuhan became capital of China after combined KMT/CCP United Front Northern Expeditionary Force took the city from American and British backed Warlord Wu Peifu. Soviet backing key for KMT victory
Mihail Borodin, a Russian Jew from Riga was among 1st 100 Bolsheviks to follow Lenin from 1903. Joined Lenin in Switzerland in 1904. met Stalin in Finland in 1904. He spoke Yiddish, Russian, German, and Latvian. Borodin with Wang Jingwei (far right) and Zhang Tailei in 1925 China
Tsarist police arrested/deported Borodin to England in 1906. He went to US, studied in Valparaiso University, Indiana; taught English to immigrants at Hull House in Chicago. Americanized, made world of difference when he dealt w Americanized Chinese in KMT. Borodin in China👇
Borodin returned to Russia in 1918 to become a top Comintern agent in 1919. He was sent to China in 1923 to help Sun Yatsen's Revolution and make KMT a Lennist Party. Borodin (3rd right) w Sun Yatsen and wife Soong Ching-ling and FM Eugene Chen (right of Sun) in Guangzhou 1923.
Borodin found it easy to work w Dr Sun Yatsen because both could communicate directly in American English. Sun grew up in Honolulu w his elder brother. Borodin appealed to Sun w Chicago vocabulary of progressivism and reform. Borodin w Sun Yatsen in Guangzhou👇
Borodin also talked in English w Sun Yatsen's foreign Minister, Trinidad born Eugene Chen, who couldn't speak Chinese. During 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Soviet leaked to Chen secret US-Brit dealing to give Qingdao to Japan sparked Communist led May 4th protest movement in China.
Borodin also talked in English w Sun Yatsen's foreign Minister, Trinidad born Eugene Chen, who couldn't speak Chinese. During 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Soviet leaked to Chen secret US-Brit dealing to give Qingdao to Japan sparked Communist led May 4th protest movement in China.
Borodin also talked in English w Sun Yatsen's foreign Minister, Trinidad born Eugene Chen, who couldn't speak Chinese. During 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Soviet leaked to Chen secret US-Brit dealing to give Qingdao to Japan sparked Communist led May 4th protest movement in China.
Eugene Chen is an interesting char. He was the only Chinese Foreign Minister who didn't speak Chinese, was dubbed “The brain of the Chinese Revolution" by Times Magazine. He had 5 Afo-Chinese children w his French Creole wife Agatha Alphonsin Ganteaume. But that's another thread
Eugene Chen is an interesting char. He was the only Chinese Foreign Minister who didn't speak Chinese, was dubbed “The brain of the Chinese Revolution" by Times Magazine. He had 5 Afo-Chinese children w his French Creole wife Agatha Alphonsin Ganteaume. But that's another thread
Eugene Chen is an interesting char. He was the only Chinese Foreign Minister who didn't speak Chinese, was dubbed “The brain of the Chinese Revolution" by Times Magazine. He had 5 Afo-Chinese children w his French Creole wife Agatha Alphonsin Ganteaume. But that's another thread
Eugene Chen is an interesting char. He was the only Chinese Foreign Minister who didn't speak Chinese, was dubbed “The brain of the Chinese Revolution" by Times Magazine. He had 5 Afo-Chinese children w his French Creole wife Agatha Alphonsin Ganteaume. But that's another thread
Eugene Chen is an interesting char. He was the only Chinese Foreign Minister who didn't speak Chinese, was dubbed “The brain of the Chinese Revolution" by Times Magazine. He had 5 Afo-Chinese children w his French Creole wife Agatha Alphonsin Ganteaume. But that's another thread
Sun Yatsen sent hist protege Chiang Kai-shek in 1923 to Moscow to learn how to setup Party controlled army. 1926 at 2nd KMT Party Congress in Guangzhou, 2nd right Wang Jingwei, 4th Chiang Kai-shek w Borodin next to him.
Getty Image (left) caption claim this is picture of Borodin with Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 but I suspect that's another Soviet Comintern agent as this person clearly doesn't resemble Mikhail Borodin as seen in another verified picture in 1927 (right)
Getty Image (left) caption claim this is picture of Borodin with Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 but I suspect that's another Soviet Comintern agent as this person clearly doesn't resemble Mikhail Borodin as seen in another verified picture in 1927 (right)
Getty Image (left) caption claim this is picture of Borodin with Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 but I suspect that's another Soviet Comintern agent as this person clearly doesn't resemble Mikhail Borodin as seen in another verified picture in 1927 (right)
The architect of Soviet-KMT alliance and KMT-CCP coalition was the leader of left wing KMT Liao Zhongkai 廖仲愷, born/educated in San Francisco, graduated University in Japan. His US-Japan background made him Sun Yatsen's close associate. He made possible 4 Borodin 2 come 2 China
Borodin brought Soviet advisors who helped Sun Yatsen to setup famous Whampao Military Academy in Guangzhou to train KMT army with Chiang Kai-shek (left) as Commandant and Zhou Enlai as the Director of the political department
Borodin brought Soviet advisors who helped Sun Yatsen to setup famous Whampao Military Academy in Guangzhou to train KMT army with Chiang Kai-shek (left) as Commandant and Zhou Enlai as the Director of the political department
Borodin brought Soviet advisors who helped Sun Yatsen to setup famous Whampao Military Academy in Guangzhou to train KMT army with Chiang Kai-shek (left) as Commandant and Zhou Enlai as the Director of the political department
I visited Whampoa Military Academy 黄埔军校 in Guangzhou last year to pay homage to the birth place of both KMT and CCP Army officers corp https://twitter.com/SteelSilkn/status/1142972869363683329?s=20
Liao Zongkai廖仲愷(Cantonese: Liu Zung Hoi) a committed socialist and main backer of Sun Yatsen's pro Soviet policy, nicknamed Mother of Whampoa Military Academy, was assassinated after Sun's death in 1925. Leaving a power vacuum 2 be filled by Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek
Liao Zongkai廖仲愷(Cantonese: Liu Zung Hoi) a committed socialist and main backer of Sun Yatsen's pro Soviet policy, nicknamed Mother of Whampoa Military Academy, was assassinated after Sun's death in 1925. Leaving a power vacuum 2 be filled by Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek
Liao Zongkai廖仲愷(Cantonese: Liu Zung Hoi) a committed socialist and main backer of Sun Yatsen's pro Soviet policy, nicknamed Mother of Whampoa Military Academy, was assassinated after Sun's death in 1925. Leaving a power vacuum 2 be filled by Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek
Death of Sun Yatsen and Liao Zongkai in 1925 left Borodin and KMT-Soviet alliance in precarious situation as most of KMT now anti-Soviet and anti-Communist. He come to rely on KMT leader Wang Jingwei (foreground). Soon Chiang Kai-shek (in cape in front of Borodin) will purge CCP
Chiang Kai-shek posed as sole legitimate successor to Sun Yatsen's legacy. In the famous doctored photo, Chiang had other two KMT officers airbrushed out leaving just him standing behind Sun. Chiang launched his 1st crackdown on Communist in 1926 while Borodin was away in N China
Chiang Kai-shek posed as sole legitimate successor to Sun Yatsen's legacy. In the famous doctored photo, Chiang had other two KMT officers airbrushed out leaving just him standing behind Sun. Chiang launched his 1st crackdown on Communist in 1926 while Borodin was away in N China
Chiang Kai-shek posed as sole legitimate successor to Sun Yatsen's legacy. In the famous doctored photo, Chiang had other two KMT officers airbrushed out leaving just him standing behind Sun. Chiang launched his 1st crackdown on Communist in 1926 while Borodin was away in N China
I talked abt this period of Chinese Revolution from 1st KMT-CCP United Front in 1920s, Northern Expedition up to Long March of the Chinese Red Army in the latest epsiode of Silk and Steel #podcast @SteelSilkn w @DecolonizedP https://www.patreon.com/posts/silk-and-steel-w-35614947?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare
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