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Technicals Here:
http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/George_Mellinger/soviet_bombers_in_china.htm
Not so detaled here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zet
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_Non-Aggression_Pact

Zet was a plan for the ussr to transfer a bunch of aid over to china during the 2nd china/japan war. China hoped that this would mean greater involvement from the ussr in the war. however both the nationalist and the soviets relized that if the soviet union went to war with japan or appered to favor china too britan and france much would support japan to weaken both the ussr and japan. So war was not declared by the soviet union until augest storm.

but what if a year or 2 later (1938 or 9, to get it as close to ww2 as possable) the soviet union did declare war on japan. maybe a border skirmish pushed stalin to far or a lack of political judgement.

how would the world turn out? by on a one on one i imagine the su and the empire would tie but the ussr has china on their side. on the other hand britan would certainly support japan and france may or may not, germany would, and if usa intrest were in danger they would fight.

so who would win? and how will this affect ww2?
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