Was there a particular instance in history of a Communist/Socialist force making a last stand and heroically dying? I don’t mean Stalingrad because the Red Army won. I’m looking for losing battles.
Was there a particular instance in history of a Communist/Socialist force making a last stand and heroically dying? I don’t mean Stalingrad because the Red Army won. I’m looking for losing battles.
Tons of examples in the Chinese Civil War. The Red Army lost the Encirclement Campaigns against Chiang, and the CPC almost faced total annihilation abandoning the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet.
Mao’s own rise in the CPC was due to the military failures of the 28 Bolsheviks - previously he was sidelined. He replaced Bo Gu and Otto Braun at the Zunyi conference, after which they began the Long March.
Also many examples in the Korean war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Gensi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jiguang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Shaoyun