Weird History: Korean Anarchist Commune in Manchuria [Korean resistance movement]
390Don't worry not even I know how I found out about this.
Long story short after getting kicked out of Korea by murdering japanese armies a bunch of korean resistance fighters made their own nationalist-anarchist commune in China's Manchuria region, and fight Japan from there. They called it Shinmin(New people)'s Government, and it actually managed to last for about 6 years before Japan, in a massive historical contingency, was finally able to crush it: during this time the brave koreans managed to hold onto a rural zone of a few million chinese and korean inhabitants in the extremely unstable environment of 1920's china, facing down not just Japan but also chinese warlord troops, bandits, white russians and who knows what else!
Sources used:
- The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
- The Cambridge History of China
- Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984 (Dongyoun Hwang)
- Korean Anarchism History from the Anarchy Archives(probably unreliable)
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