Word: mauchukuo
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Russia and Japan are still likely to collide, Professor Hopper believes. "Ever since the Mauchukuo incident in 1931, the Bolsheviks have concentrated their energies on building a defense system in the Far East against the Japanese, involving a railroad parallel to the Trans-Siberian, and industrial self-sufficiency for Russia's Far Eastern territories," he explained...
...fears most the necessary of a fight on two fronts. So long as a large part of the Red Army is stationed in the newly acquired territory in Poland, it is unlikely that Russia will bring effective pressure on Japan to round out Soviet Far Eastern positions by taking Mauchukuo...
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