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On April 12, Chiang carried out a purge of thousands of suspected Communists and dissidents in Shanghai, and began large-scale massacres across the country collectively known as the " White Terror ".

Throughout April 1927, more than people were killed in Shanghai.

The killings drove most Communists from urban cities and into the rural countryside, where the KMT was less powerful.

In the year after April 1927, over 300, 000 people died across China in anti-Communist suppression campaigns executed by the KMT .< ref name =" Barnouin38 "> Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

Zhou Enlai: A Political Life.

Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.

ISBN 962-996-280-2.

Retrieved at < http :// books. google. com / books? id = NztlWQeXf2IC & printsec = frontcover & dq = zhou + enlai & hl = en & ei = wBkuTdKyB4H_8AaJucigAQ & sa = X & oi = book_result & ct = result & resnum = 2 & ved = 0CCsQ6AEwAQ # v = onepage & q & f = false > on March 12, 2011. p. 38 </ ref > More liberal estimates regarding the White Terror in China, estimate it took millions of lives, most of them in the rural areas.

Chiang allowed for the " escape " of Soviet agent and advisor Mikhail Borodin and Soviet military officer Vasily Blücher ( Galens ) to safety after the purge.

A picture was taken of Chiang with Borodin and Galens.