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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 253
save American lives. In effect, what he did is sell these people into slavery. Roosevelt knew that
this agreement “meant Soviet forces would invade Manchuria and perhaps north China, with
potentially devastating effects on Nationalist control”.
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Japan had “grabbed Manchuria from
China in 1931 and spent six years turning it into an industrial colossus for warring on the rest of
China”.
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In accordance with his agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin declared war on Japan and
ordered his troops to march on Manchuria on August 8, 1945. This was after the US had dropped
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Japanese surrender was immanent. Stalin saw US victory and
sought to make the most gains with the least effort.
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Technically Stalin did not fulfill his
agreement since three months had passed since Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945.
Russia Loots Manchuria and Aids The Chinese Communists
Once in Manchuria, it became the responsibility of the Soviets to accept the Japanese
surrender and protect the national interests until the Chinese Nationalist army arrived. The
Soviets failed miserably at performing as agreed; Russian troops looted the gold from the banks
and stripped the factories of their machinery and shipped it back to Russia. Moreover, the
Russians turned over the large caches of surrendered Japanese military arms to the Chinese
Communist rebels. The Chinese Communist rebels received 1,000 artillery pieces, “366 tanks,
300,000 rifles, 4,836 machine guns, 2,300 motor vehicles, and ammunition for half a million
soldier.” This was enough to convert the rebels from ‘ragtag guerrillas’ to a formidable army.
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The U.S. Sabotages The War Efforts of the Chinese Nationalists
At the same time the Chinese Communist rebels were being built into a formidable army
through the support of Russia and Joseph Stalin, the United States failed to support the
Nationalist Chinese in like manner. Although the United States had advisers and troops in China
and had supplied China throughout the war, the United States placed an arms embargo against
China that was not lifted until May 26, 1947. This was almost two years after the Russians began
their massive buildup of the Communist rebels.
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According to a U.S Senate investigation
(McCarran Committee Report), the US sold the cash starved Nationalists surplus arms from
Okinawa and other Pacific Islands after wars end but failed to deliver as promised. Later the US
Congress appropriated $125 million for weapons for the Nationalist Chinese Army but the State
Department prevented the shipments from leaving the harbors in San Francisco and Los Angeles
for one and a half years. When the shipments finally reached China, much of the equipment was
useless; the rifles were missing their bolts.
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The following is a quote from a long suppressed
Senate report on the Institute of Pacific Relations and its contribution to the Communist takeover
of China:
INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS REPORT
of the
Committee on the Judiciary
Eighty-Second Congress
Second Session
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