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| Sino-Soviet War | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 Warsaw Pact  Mongolia  North Korea
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 People's Republic of China
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Taiwan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
| Yuri Andropov† | Deng Xiaoping† | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| Millions | 450 million civilian and military | 8 million Taiwanese civilian and military | ||||||
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The Sino-Soviet War was a theatre of conflict in "World War III" between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
History[]
Pre-Doomsday Conflicts[]
Sino Soviet Split
China and NATO
Doomsday[]
Bombs Dropped
World War III[]
(ADDING ALL CANON INFO ON SINO-SOVIET WAR OF RELEVANCE HERE - TO BE USED FOR REFERENCE AS NEEDED)
The Soviet attack against China was largely a preemptive measure, denying the PRC the opportunity to exploit a moment of Soviet weakness. The nuclear barrage was accompanied by an enormous land invasion from points all along the 12,000 kilometers of the Chinese border with the Soviet Union and Mongolia. Columns advanced into Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang.
The invading armies saw much more success in the Sino-Soviet War than their counterparts in Europe. The headquarters of the 39th Army in Ulaanbaatar was a crucial factor in this difference. NATO had ignored Mongolia in its attacks; the Soviet nuclear and conventional forces placed there were a threat to China, not the West. Meanwhile China's nuclear forces were not prepared to make a quick retaliatory strike. So Ulaanbaatar was spared and took over command and control of the invasion of China when key commands in the Soviet Union were destroyed.
Nonetheless, the advancing forces experienced the same problems with resupply, reinforcement, and morale. The 39th army was largely recalled to Mongolia; maintaining the only stable pro-Soviet state was now more urgent than territorial gains in China. Forces in Xinjiang gained control of some territory but handed it over to local separatist elements as quickly as they could; the East Turkestan Republic was operating with limited Soviet support by mid-1984, and the Soviet armies there were evacuated to Mongolia or Siberia.
Forces advancing through the province of Heilongjiang (northern Manchuria) halted before reaching the ruins of Harbin, the provincial capital that had been destroyed by nuclear missiles. This became the only Chinese region that would be under Soviet occupation for the long term, though occupying forces there would fight insurgencies for many years.
UIGHUR SPLIT FROM CHINA
War of Attrition[]
What initially began as steady gains by the soviet forces in Manchuria and Turkmenistan gradually reduced to a slow march through the Chinese interior. By this point it was sure knowledge that Beijing had fallen victim to Soviet nukes. The early months saw the Soviets systematically pushing the PLA out of the Manchurian provinces, at first this proved to be a resounding success however the Soviets, due to the lack of communications and radio interference in the nuclear aftermath, did not know of the growing defensive line spreading across north east China. The PLA were regrouping at Chifeng and fortifying the city. The Soviets were walking into a bloodbath. The Chinese were sure that for every metre gained by the Soviet invasion force, they would pay for it in blood.
The Fall of Chifeng[]
The Soviets slammed into the new great wall of Chinese resistance. Survivors of the Battle of Chifeng describe the frontline as being a river of blood and a scene unlike anything witness on earth. The Chifeng Front would hold the line for months, pushing past the winter of 83 into the spring of 84. This however would not be the defence that the PLA had hoped for and as supply lines were depleted through the ongoing onslaught unfolding in the city eventually one side would fall foul of luck. The Soviets were throwing every able body into the skirmish, many Mongolians would be sent to fight in Chifeng only to gain a few more feet of ground before being decimated. Both sides were hoping on their numbers prevailing but it was the Soviets who would win out the day, much to their misfortune.
By October of 1984 the situation was all but lost for the PLA in the northeast, sure enough the Soviets would overrun their positions at Chifeng and push deeper into the mainland, slaughtering everything in their wake. They were desperate. And desperate people do depraved things. Thus it fell to the commander of the Chifeng Offensive to decide to do the most unforgivable act, to fire a nuclear missile upon their own people. The Soviets were not aware of how many nuclear devices the Chinese had left in their reserves, but on October 29th, 1984 they learned the hard way. Tens of thousands of Soviet and Mongol troops died alongside the few souls which remained in the ruined city of Chifeng.
Just as the southern outskirts of Chifeng were lost to the People's Liberation Army, a 3.3 MT Dong Feng missile saw the city instantly razed to the ground, obliterating the entirety of the city and much of neighbouring Harqin. The surviving Chinese now under Soviet occupation in the Northeast were horrified at the news that a Chinese missile had been fired upon their own, this was the last domino that saw any resistance still existing in Manchuria at this point cease.
The PLA pulled out of the Chifeng region and regrouped further west at Kalgan. The commander who had ordered the strike did not make it back to the new forward base, it is unknown whether he was executed by his men or had committed suicide. However, his brutal act would save the remnant of the People's Liberation Army in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and north-eastern Sichuan.
The Soviets, too heavily wounded and worried of further nuclear retaliation, did not press south. With their offensive now divided between those in Inner Mongolia and the Manchurian offensive, the crater of Chifeng became a de facto "no man's land" for both sides. If the PLA were not above destroying their own cities to ensure survival, now every city invaded had the risk of becoming another Chifeng incident. The Mongolian forces which comprised the bulk of the Soviet offensive were in uproar at the amount of their own dead to the Chinese bomb and wanted retribution. For the next two month both sides entrenched themselves into their respective battle lines, unsure of who would strike first and whether that strike would spell doom for themselves.
The Ceasefire[]
Both sides were securing their lines as the winter of 1984 crept into the region, bringing with it an uneasy peace as surely, neither side was combat capable in the colder northern Chinese regions. This lull in the battle allowed both sides to truly take stock of their predicament. Their nations were now lying in ashes, their people starving and struggling to survive, moving in vast columns of refugees on a death march looking for a haven that will never come. If their soldiers had any morale to hold fast to in the fight, that had been decimated in the fall of Chifeng the prior autumn.
Though it was not ideal to capitulate to their invaders, the PLA knew it was time to cease fighting and recover the nation that was left before chasing the nation that was lost. This they knew would upset some in their command, as it was the Soviets that had laid waste to vast swathes of their country, but what other choice did they have. To keep the fighting persisting in this way would only lead to the victors ruling over a graveyard.
A message was drafted from the senior command of the PLA, to be sent out with scouts to offer a meeting with Soviet generals in charge of the invasion to sue for peace. A date and time was set to meet unarmed and with a low profile in CITY (im thinking Wuhai or Yinchuan) to discuss the formal ceasefire arrangements between the two war wounded nations.
Word reached the soviet command who were sceptical but exhausted from the long months of fighting along the border. They weighed up their position. Turkmenistan and Manchuria were secure, with Inner Mongolia in its majority falling under soviet protection. They had power in the talks that were to go ahead, but also were wary of the intentions of the PLA representatives. In the end it was agreed that a small delegation would meet in the darkness of night with the PLA and discuss their terms for a ceasefire.
The meeting was tense, both sides were cold in their greetings and business swiftly ensued. The soviets at first were hard lining that the entirety of Inner Mongolia and the Bohai Gulf be turned over to their authority. Manchuria and Turkmenistan by now had turned away from China due to the Chifeng incident and would not return without further bloodshed, a sore point the soviets twisted to their gain.
The PLA were resolute in their response, the Soviets would not receive any land more than they had taken by force thus far and to avoid any further incidents like Chifeng, for which the Chinese assured the Soviets they were more than capable and able to do, the soviets would agree to their terms. Failure to agree was an indication to the Chinese that the Soviets had accepted total annihilation.
The soviets tried to counter saying that the PLA were not the only nuclear ready force in this conflict and that the reserves of Soviet stock far outmatched the PLAs rocket arsenal. The PLA pressed firmly that they were to resolve the matter however they saw fit, and that with the nuclear exchange in 1983, the Soviets surely would not have the capabilities to prevent the destruction of whatever cities they had left in the far east before their own bombs fell on the remnant of the People’s Republic of China.
The discussions would go back and forth in this manner for hours before finally the terms of the ceasefire would be agreed. The Soviets would keep their spoils but no more. A border land would be demilitarised on either side of the line. The DMZ would follow this line up to the No Man’s land at Chifeng, stretching south to the Ruins of Beijing and its environs.
Both delegations signed this agreement, scrawled haphazardly onto a crumpled map brought to the meeting. And returned to their respective sides of the border in the early hours of the morning. IT was announced via radio the following day that all hostilities would cease and that a truce had been signed by agreeing parties for both nations. Thus unofficially the war in the far east ended.
Post Ceasefire Incidents[]
The Last March[]
The most significant contrast of the aftermath of the war was the sorry state of what was left of the People's Republic of China. Having lost almost a third of its territory to the Soviets, two-thirds of its population and the entire region around its capitol being made uninhabitable by 2 years of nuclear war, the surviving leadership made the decision to call all surviving People's Liberation Army and the people at large to its five remaining provinces under its control, whose civilian populations were almost entirely depleted after 2 years of total nuclear war and starvation. Although over ten million Chinese would make the trek to the Taiyuan-led rump state, this was a mere fraction of China's total population. The defeat of the People's Republic of China was made apparent not by the destruction of its cities or people, but by the sorry state its nominal survival. The roughly one hundred million souls still alive outside of Chinese and Soviet-held lands would devolve into a myriad patchwork of city-states, despotic autocracies, a myriad of "People's Republics" led from dozens of different small towns, isolationist minority group holdings and even total lawlessness.
Ulaan Battar Spy Ring Incident
Poisoning of a PRC Official
Red Phone Hotline - Fear of nuclear retaliation.
Modern Situation[]
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, "The Last Cosmonaut" and Siberian Premier from 2017 to 2020.
The consequences of the Sino-Soviet War have continued to be felt across Asia, forever transforming the societies which were party to the senseless conflict. However, time has begun to heal the great divide as younger generations born after the War have been more pragmatic in their attitudes with each other. However, those that remained within the People's Republic do not share these optimistic sentiments, instead seeking a return of the lands which were stolen from them by their once-ally.
USSR Integratuion of inner mongolia Manchuria and Xinjiang.
Scavvers in beijing