For many years, Chiang Ching-kuo was a fanatical communist. That didn’t stop him from later ruthlessly persecuting his former ideological comrades-in-arms.
In 1978, a man whom many had once known as an ordinary worker from a factory in the Urals and a member of the Communist Party by the name of Nikolai Elizarov became president of the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan (not recognized by the Russian Feder