Who was Chiang Kai-shek and why did people hate him?
I did google it but only found his wiki page where they talk about early life and blah blah blah. Anyway I don’t even know who he is really. I’m listening to a Roger Waters song from one of the Pink Floyd band members. In the song called “Watching TV” he sings these lines.
“Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on women and children
Imagine that….
imagine that”
Here are the full song lyrics
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/18/roger_waters/watching_tv.html
I don’t really know what the song is about either. I just really like it. If anybody out there knows can they explain? Thanks a bunch!! 
There are going to be some mixed opinions of Chang Kai Sheik for sure. He was the leader of the forces that invaded Taiwan and set up Nationalist China. He was not, as some would think, a nice man. He butchered the residents on Taiwan in order to have places for his people to live. He was “loved” in the US because he considered himself a Southern Baptist, thus a Christian, and therefore good (or something). His wife graduated from a US college or university and spoke beautiful English.
When I arrived in Taiwan in 1967, I was surprised at what I saw. It was not as one would have read in one of the newspapers in the US, it was a horrible place. There were bodies floating in the harbor and bodies on the street. The government was strongly dictatorial and the military ever present.
I went into the Vietnam theater of operations while I was in the Navy and spent many days and nights in Taiwan picking up supplies for Vietnam. My experiences in Taiwan changed me from a Conservative to a Liberal because I saw nothing of what I had been told existed in Taiwan – it was a wretched place
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