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NPOV

spiegel-magazin article about Otto Braun (in German) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.89.205 (talk) 15:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maoist propaganda?

The sentences about the failure of Braun in 1934 and Mao's justified distrust may be completely true, they nevertheless smack of maoist propaganda. Sources?.--Radh (talk) 17:48, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sun Shuyun, author of The Long March, writes that Braun in fact preferred mobile warfare to direct assault. She quotes Braun as saying, "As to positional warfare, whatever form it took, it was not suitable. We were all absolutely clear on that." She goes on to say that the party leadership (not just Braun and Bo Gu) deemed it necessary to try to defend Guangchang, rather than retreat for guerrilla warfare. Furthermore, she quotes Edgar Snow, writing on Braun: "He is the arrogant foreigner, the black sheep, the scapegoat: and it is somehow comforting to be able to cast most of the blame on him. Actually, it is almost impossible to believe that under any genius of command, the Reds could have emerged victorious from the Himalayan obstacles which faced them."

Of course, this is all from just one source, so it's no landslide of evidence. But it does make one wonder if Braun deserves to be dismissed as casually as he is in the article. TurboCamel (talk) 02:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]