Talk:Manchukuo Survives

The entire Kwantung Army was extremely radical - there's no way that any of them would have gone along with this.

Given how the Chinese Civil War played out, without Manchuria, the Communists lose. They were well on the way to doing so otl, and then the Soviets dropped Manchuria into their laps, including all the weapons the surrendering and fleeing Japanese left behind. Elsewhere in China, they either ended up in RoC hands, or American ones. Without those weapons, they would lose, or at least not "win" like the RoC managed on Taiwan otl, but in the northern mountains somewhere.

And, obviously, this Manchuria, being anti-communist, won't give any of the arms to the Communists. Immensely more difficult for the Soviets to supply them now, too. And, they will not get Manchuria to use as a power base, like otl. And, the RoC won't waste its best troops and supplies in the northern cities like otl, either.

Have a look at this map, which shows a fair amount of what I mean. Note the amount of territory they have outside of Manchuria, which is not much.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/images/chin-cw.gif

Lordganon 11:44, August 9, 2011 (UTC)