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With the fall of berlin wall and collapse of communism in eastern Europe fully underway and the SOviet forces being withdrawn the Japanease nationalists consider this an ideal time to take back kuril Islands in a lightning campaign.
Using overflights by soviet recon aircrafts and presence of soviet navy vessels close to the territorial waters as a provocation the Japanese declare war on USSR and attack the Kurils.Using paratroops to compensate for lack of offensive naval /marines force and a blockade of the islands with the their 2 dozen DD/Frigates they isolate the Soviet garrison in the Kurils and subject it to constant air attacks using their 100 + F-15./F-4 fighter jets.
What options do the soviet commanders in the Far east have to respond ?
Does the Soviet Pacific fleet try to challenge the might of the Japanese navy ?
How do the 2 fleets compare ?
Please leave aside assumptions like japan being a pacifist country will never be an aggressor , stranger things have happened in real history.
Please try to comment of the military options the Soviets have at that time
Thanks