they wouldnt really have anything holding themselves back from just deciding to do that especially if they had the wealth and promise of power to do that.    ehhhh, only in the first half (or however you want to describe it) of the war. by the post war restaurant of aggression mao was hardly the underdog with heavy soviet backing, the nationalist having long burnt their goodwill with the public, general incompetence amongst nationalist leadership, and the government being extremely worn out by the war while the communist had faired generally better during it.  it was less a popular underdog uprising and more the nationalist government was in the edge of collapse regardless
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