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TIL of the Fan Meifuri Movement. In 1948, protests erupted in China as Americans pardoned known Japanese WW2 War Criminals. Fearing communist influence, the KMT cracked down hard against the protests. This in turn demoralized many nationalists with the KMT, aiding the CCP's victory in 1949.

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