BEIJING: As China marks 80 years since the Red Army ended its epic Long March, the Communist Party is attacking revisionist history in an effort to compel reverence for its founding legend.

Facing annihilation at the hands of Nationalists during China’s civil war in 1934, some 80,000 Communist soldiers and leaders -- Mao Zedong among them -- broke through encircling forces and embarked on a grueling escape.

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