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This war accomplished 2 things: Japan decided to turn their attention to the Navy and attacking Americ. The Soviet Union didn't have to fight a war on two front
by phobosdeimos 8y ago
This war accomplished 2 things: Japan decided to turn their attention to the Navy and attacking Americ. The Soviet Union didn't have to fight a war on two fronts thus beating Germany.
What wars and battles are remembered rarely reflects their importance.
- nickik 8y agoThrewout the whole fight with German the Soviet Union had enough troupes in the East to fight Japan. Japan had some great divisions and a great navy, but going up against the Soviet Union in 1941 would not seen them defeated. So this "if Japan jad attacked the Soviet would change everything" meme is mostly wrong but every couple of years it comes back because somebody that doesnt know the history well digs it up. The reason Japan did atrack was because they knew they had no chance.
- m_mueller 8y agoI had the impression that the Soviets were forced to pull troops from the East to the West in 1941, enough so that a combined German/Japanese attack would have likely succeeded in one of the fronts.
- phobosdeimos 8y agoZhukov himself was in Siberia when the Germans invaded. Being able to redeploy troops equiped with full winter gear and combat experience saved Russia in my opinion.
- nickik 8y agoThey did pull some troupes, but they still had a huge number of troupes in the East. Given the limits of the Imperial Japanese Army in that theater (logistics, modern mobile army) it is hard to image how they could have made significant progress. Specifically after they had totally lost in 1939.