 The Soviet Union officially terminated its cooperation with the KMT while Wang, fearing retribution as a Communist sympathizer, fled to Europe.The Wuhan Nationalist government soon disintegrated, leaving Chiang as the sole legitimate leader of the Kuomintang.In the years after April 1927, 300,000 people were killed across China in three years of warfare against the Communists as many She people and Hakka people had their whole families killed including infants and women sold to prostitution.