 This alliance included both financial and military aid and a small but important group of Soviet political and military advisors, headed by Mikhail Borodin.The Soviet Union's conditions for alliance and aid included cooperation with the small Communist Party of China.Sun agreed to let the Communists join the KMT as individuals, but ruled out an alliance with them or their participation as an organized bloc; in addition, once in the KMT he demanded that the Communists support KMT's party ideology and observe party discipline.