Soviet-Sino-Japanese War

What if in 1937 after the Marco Polo Bridge incident a slightly saner Stalin who does initiate any great purges of the army decides instead to send Soviet devisions into China to help fight off the Japanese.
 

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Allow me to answer by quoting my comment on a similar thread, regarding the Japanese attacking the Soviets in December 1941:

Think of it as the average hentai, with the Kwantung Army playing the part of the schoolgirl and the Red Army as the tentacle monster, forcing its way into every orifice the Kwantung Army has and a few it didn't have until the Soviets went to work.
 
^ Yep, that would be about the reality.

The Japanese would probably see that and get the heck back to Korea before Stalin's forces showed up.
 
^ Yep, that would be about the reality.

The Japanese would probably see that and get the heck back to Korea before Stalin's forces showed up.

On the other hand...

the USSR had serious problems in the far east in the early 1930s; the railroads were kinda primitive and would've had difficulty supplying an earlier force.

A lot of the Soviet buildup in the region came on the heels of the formation of Manchukuo; suppose the war had broken out earlier?
 
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