Zhu De
Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976) · China · Politicians · Died at 89
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Something wrong?One of the architects of the People's Liberation Army and the military force that brought Mao to power. Zhu De commanded the communist troops through Japan's invasion and the civil war that followed, then spent two decades as a fixture at the top of the party until his death in 1976.
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Zhu during his youth (1900)
Zhu De in 1916.
Zhu photographed in Berlin, 1922
Bust of Zhu De in Former Residence, Jianshu
Zhu (second from right) photographed with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai (second from left) and Bo Gu (left) in 1937.
Zhu with American military observer Evans Carlson at the Eighth Route Army's field headquarters in Shanxi province, December 1937
Zhu and Peng Dehuai (left) at the Marshal of the People's Republic of China rank awarding ceremony.Awards
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Zhu De was born into poverty in 1886 and adopted at nine by a wealthy uncle, an education route that opened a military academy and a career as a warlord in a rebel army. He joined the Chinese Communist Party and rose to command the Eighth Route Army through the Second Sino-Japanese War and the long civil war that followed. By the time the People's Republic was founded, he was both a military commander and a high party official - ranked first among the ten marshals in 1955. He chaired the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1959 until he died in 1976, seventeen years into the state he helped create.
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