Got a Real-World Weapon, Armor or Tactics Question? Mk. XXIV

[Storm Bringer]

That isn't the bit I mean- why would Communist China capture a soldier from Communist Russia? There must be a brief period where the soldier was captured by the nationalists in China before Mao took over.

because the two communist nations didn't always get along. there were a few border disputes between the two that rumbled on for decades, plus the russains thought that all communists should listen to the them as the leaders of the communist world, and china, following a different strain of communist thought, did not.

of coruse, i might be misremember it, he might have been traded by the russains to the Chinese. either way, he ended up in korea and was captured by the US.