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...Return of Li Lisan...
...name of Li Lisan is almost a legend. In the days when the Chinese Communist Party was breast-fed by Moscow (circa 1925), Li Lisan had been the party's No. 1 Marxist and tactical top dog. Then German Communist Heinz Neumann and Georgian Communist M. Lominadze, Comintern agents and personal pets of Stalin, decided to speed up the Chinese revolution by staging an insurrection in Canton (1927). Li Lisan opposed them...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...