... found refuge. Of the approximately 80,000 men and 35 women who participated in the Long march, less than 10,000 survived. However, heroism and great human drama of the epic should not obscure the fact that the Long March was born out of political and military failure and terminated in near disaster. Having successfully endured Chiang Kai-shek's first four ... ...

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