China will not forget the merits of Soviet Red Army soldiers who helped Chinese fight against Japanese invaders in northeast China, said President Hu Jintao in Moscow on Saturday.. He made the ...

To begin with, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which includes all three branches of the military, totals 2.7 million men — third largest after the Soviet Union (3.15 million) and the ...

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on Aug 8, 1945, and sent more than a million soldiers to China. They destroyed the main force of the Kwantung Army within a week and liberated Lvda district ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

The situation in China, reported the Soviet news agency Tass last week, “increasingly resembles civil war.” Fighting between the supporters and the opponents of Mao Tse-tung’s Great ...

Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals—Liu Po-cheng (“The One-Eyed Dragon”), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai—had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

China’s bomber force—consisting of an extremely limited number of Tu-4 (a Soviet copy of the U.S. B-29) and H-6 (a copy of the Soviet Tu-16 Badger)—would have fared very poorly against the ...

By the end of the war the Soviet Army numbered more than 11 million officers and men. The Post-War Era In 1946 the word "red" was removed from the name of the armed forces.