Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
Same day, however, Japanese troops entered Hulin, close to the Siberian border. Loudly General Hayashi's War Office insisted that they were only "chasing bandits...
Twentieth Century Japan fights first and declares war, if at all, afterwards. That is why Russia is in everlasting dread of a flank attack across the Siberian border, an attack which may fall anywhere, anytime. Russia's prime defense is its ability to move up & down the Trans-Siberian. And that rickety road is at present in notoriously bad condition for a major military action.* It can handle only a few thousand troops a day, provision only a small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops...
...rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime provinces in the spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short...
...words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting the Maritime provinces off from the rest of Russia. The Trans-Siberian line could be cut at a dozen spots, thus severing Vladivostok from her base of supplies. All this the Soviet Union knows perfectly well, and it is basing its military calculations on the assumption of those immediate losses. But to leave the threatened region defenceless now would be an open...