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So the US spent a great deal of money propping up Chiang Kai-Shek,
所以美國花了大量的錢財來支持蔣介石
the Soviets spent a great deal of money ropping up Mao Zedong, Mao won.
而蘇聯也花了大量的錢財來支持毛澤東，后來毛澤東勝利了
In Hindsight the nationalists of Chiang Kai-Shek were just too brutal and too corrupt to rule a country China's size.
事后看來，蔣介石的國民黨過于殘暴和腐敗，無法統治遼闊的中國
Mao and the red Chinese were just as brutal but like their Soviet advisors
毛澤東和其紅色政權和其蘇聯老大哥同樣殘暴
they had the advantages of strong leadership, disciplined followers and clear objectives.
但是他們有著很強的領導優勢、紀律嚴明的支持者和明確的目標
In Peking on October 1st 1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China.
1949年10月1日，在北京毛澤東宣布了中華人民共和國的成立
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，蔣介石及其民國政府逃到臺灣，至今仍駐守在那里
Yet Red China never became the client state that Stalin had hoped for.
然而紅色中國從未成為如斯大林所期待的附庸國
From the start the Chinese showed an independent streak suiting a nation so much older than Russia,
從一開始，中國人就展示出一種治理一個比蘇聯古老許多的國家的獨立的方法
Mao paid lip service to Stalin as a leader of world communism
毛澤東在口頭上服從世界共產主義的領導人斯大林
but he was hard at work at building a Chinese form of communism for Chinese realities.
但是他卻努力在建設符合中國國情的中國式共產主義
A home grown communist movement had also sprung up in Korea,
一場自主共產主義運動也在朝鮮展開
after the Japanese surrender Korea was divided along the 38th Parallel into a communist north and a democratic south.
日本投降后，朝鮮半島以三八線為界分為共產主義的北邊和民主的南邊
