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Originally Posted by CanadianCombat So far it sounds like none of you guys know anything. Heres the facts.
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I like that this is coming from someone who doesn't know much more than those he says don't know anything. The Red Army had anywhere from half a million men to over a million men in the Far East at any point during the war. The myth of Siberian divisions saving the Soviet Union is just that. Divisions were used from all over the Soviet Union, including the Caucasus, Urals, Trans-Baikal, and the Far East. They were helpful, but the offensive could have proceeded with or without them. In fact they could have been sent anyway since there were so many of them in the Far East. The Japanese wouldn't have accomplished much of anything, Soviet forces in the Far East had increased to a rather large number so that they'd have kept them at bay and conscripts from the area could have been sent to the West or taken the place of those divisions being sent to the west, the latter is in fact what happened.