If before the start of WW2 (1935ish) the russians and the japanese became allies, what would happen?
Like if the japanese adopted some communist laws and the russians helped japan take china.
This would mean that the nazis would be on their own in ww2 and the soviet union would become a indirect enemy of the usa.
So, /his/, how dumb or good is this alliance?
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japan manchuria korea mongolia was all under one empire the soviet machine didnt really have a place. like they had the resources to divert to travel across siberia, through allied territory, and then into china.
they'd sooner take the mid east etc instead, protect their bread basin/basket
pretty dumb alliance plus they just recently went through sino-rus wars so relations would be temperered, cooled at least.
and then what, like sovie had a joined empire to expand into the pacific basin. hah. couldnt even hold alaska.
Pre 2nd world war bolsheviks were internationalist provocateurs financing many violent socialist movements. People often wonder why they didn't do this and that with stalin because they forget stalin is a non entity at this time, Hitler and the emperor don't know who the fuck stalin is. The Bolsheviks haven't reached the point yet where they're a massive war machine that doesn't actually believe in communism and has nationalist goals
In 1935 the USSR is just some shitty nation that got beat by poland and has no officers, that also undermines the emperors divine mandate and the national socialist's social views. Chiang Kai-shek thinks he can even beat them alone without joining the anti-commitern pact
why on earth would they do that? if you absolutely have to make these alt-history threads just try to be even somewhat realistic with these retarded scenarios