"In 1927 Chiang Kai-Shek boiled hundreds of Communists alive," claimed George Orwell....?

George Orwell had never visited China in his lifetime, but the brutality and scale of the Shanghai Massacre of 1927 was such, that much of its gory details (exaggerated or otherwise) would have …

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