Xinjiang clique
With Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 , Sheng decided to rejoin the Kuomintang and expelled Soviet advisors and executed communists . Chiang Kai-shek couldn't trust Sheng , who tried renegotiating with Joseph Stalin , so he deposed him and installed direct rule in 1944 . 
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