Word: vinokurka
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived of a bloody Japanese-Soviet clash in the Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders in no case to allow Japanese and Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers, and upon...
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