The Power of the CCP
Guest post by Ethan Hay
Communist governments have always sought to have complete control of the flow of information, so as to preserve their legitimacy on the world stage, but there is ample reason to believe that they control the flow of information to ensure that the historical brutality of their regimes remains unknown.
That has been the case since the rise of the Soviet Union, and it remains true today in the Peoples’s Republic of China. To this day, historians have had a hard time estimating the exact number of Chinese killed during the Chinese Civil war, which technically began in 1928 due to division between the Chinese Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, and the Kuomintang,
