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==Soviet aggression==

==Soviet aggression==

[[Image:Sovietambitions.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The darkened areas represent territorries of Soviet ambitions and designs, 1921 - 1949.]]

[[Image:Sovietambitions.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The darkened areas represent territorries of Soviet ambitions and designs, 1921 - 1949.]]

Soviet ambitions in China as early as 1921 were to transform all northern China — [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] — into outright Russian dependencies and to convert what remained of China into a Communist satellite..<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 17] pdf.</ref>

Soviet ambitions in China as early as 1921 were to transform all northern China — [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] — into outright Russian dependencies and to convert what remained of China into a Communist satellite.<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 17] pdf.</ref>

The [[U.S. Department of State]] refused to regard [[Japan]] as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in North China in the 1930s. As a matter of fact, not one protest was sent by the Department of State against the Soviet Union despite her absorption of Sinkiang and [[Outer Mongolia]],

The [[U.S. Department of State]] refused to regard [[Japan]] as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in North China in the 1930s. As a matter of fact, not one protest was sent by the Department of State against the Soviet Union despite her absorption of Sinkiang and [[Outer Mongolia]],