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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...lucky was Russia's Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Boris Spiridonovich Stomoniakov, for years the top Soviet authority on the Far East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Up & Out | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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