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  2. Soviet invasion of Manchuria - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation [14] or simply the Manchurian Operation (Маньчжурская операция) and sometimes Operation August Storm, [1] began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Empire of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo, which was situated in ...

  3. Manchukuo Imperial Army - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet invasion force taking part in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation entered the state on 8 August 1945, consisting of 76 battle-hardened divisions from the European front, and including 4,500 tanks. The massive force easily swept aside both the depleted Kwantung Army and its Manchukuoan allies.

  4. Evacuation of Manchukuo - Wikipedia

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    The Evacuation of Manchukuo occurred during the Soviet Red Army's invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo as part of the wider Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation of August 1945. The Soviets recovered territory which had been captured by Japan during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, and they dismantled the Manchurian ...

  5. Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II

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    The war with Japan, the Campaign in the Far East including the Manchurian strategic offensive operation, (9 August 1945 – 2 September 1945) is seen as a separate theater of operations from the Great Patriotic War. During the course of the Second World War the Red Army carried out a number of different military operations. The scope of these ...

  6. Aleksandr Vasilevsky - Wikipedia

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    Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Vasilevsky in Port Arthur, China, 1945. During the 1944 summer offensive, Stalin announced that he would appoint Vasilevsky ...

  7. Military occupations by the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, or the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Манчжурская стратегическая наступательная ...

  8. Khingan–Mukden Operation - Wikipedia

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    Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation was a military operation of the Red Army and the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army against the Japanese troops during the Soviet–Japanese War. Conducted from 9 August to 2 September 1945 by troops of the Transbaikal Front with the aim of defeating the Kwantung Army in western Manchuria .

  9. Japanese invasion of Manchuria - Wikipedia

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    The occupation lasted until mid-August 1945, towards the end of the Second World War, in the face of an onslaught by the Soviet Union and Mongolia during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. The South Manchuria Railway Zone and the Korean Peninsula had been under the control of the Japanese Empire since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 ...