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Originally posted by clown:
Yet keeping these resources some 9000 miles away from the action for 3-4 months means something.
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What it means is that the Russians did not have full trust in intelligence, and besides they were unsure that if the Japanese were quiescent they would not become aggressive later. The Japanese sent a strong signal that they were engaged elsewhere when they attacked towards South East Asia and Pearl Harbour. This was very tranquilising to the Soviet authorities...