So I really hope everyone can keep the politics out of this one - I always hear this idea that the CPC just hid away in the mountains throughout the war and left the KMT to do the work - then came in afterwards and stole the country (more or less).

Is anyone able to provide a slightly more detailed picture of what the CPC actually did during this conflict, and make an assessment on whether or not the characterization of them as having done nothing and left the KMT to take the fall was accurate or not?