Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarayyar Soviet ta yi yaƙi da gajerun rikice-rikicen kan iyaka biyu da ba a bayyana su ba tare da Japan a 1938 da kuma a 1939, sannan ta kasance tsaka tsaki ta hanyar yarjejeniyar tsaka tsaki ta Soviet da Japan na Afrilu 1941, har zuwa watan Agusta 1945 lokacin da (da Mongolia) suka shiga sauran Allies kuma suka mamaye yankin Manchukuo
, China, Inner Mongolia, mai karewa na Japan na Koriya da kuma yankin da Japan ke da'awar kamar Kudancin Sakhalin.