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In 1949, the Communists won the Chinese Civil War. Who was the communist leader?

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Mao Zedong was the communist leader who defeated the Nationalist Party in 1949 and declared China a communist state.

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Mao Zedong was the leader of the Communist Party who defeated the Nationalist Party in 1949 and declared China a communist state. Mao Zedong was a charismatic leader of peasant origin who rose to prominence in the Chinese Communist Party by the early 1930s. He gradually emerged as a leader alongside Red Army leader Zhou Enlai and became the Chairman of the CCP.

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