Soviet Campaigns

[Charles22]

Okay.

my statement about the "not caring for lives" was saying that it had nothing to do with the manchurian campign. did u see penal battalions or "cannon-fodder" tactics?

Well, yes, I would imagine that there were no penal battalions used in that way there, but, you don't establish the enemy's attitude toward his own losses the hour he's attacking you. No, Japan doubtlessly knew about it from the USSR's treatment of their own people when fighting the Germans and so forth before that.

You just need look at the much earlier communist revolution to see the same attitude. Also Stalin's purging of the generals after that didn't exactly speak of warmth towards themselves. The persecution of the church wasn't exactly very brotherly either (which only came back because Stalin needed an angle to try to get people to feel like they had something worth defending). Many were perfectly happy to get anybody invading them, just as long as it rid them of the communist tyranny they faced. Unfortunately for them the invaders might be just as bad or worse.