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Lars-Erik Nyman, Sinkiang 1934-1943. Dark decade for a pivotal puppet.
During the decade preceding 1943 the province of Sinkiang was Chinese in name only, since the Soviet Union held the region as a pawn for supplied war materials to the Kuomintang government in Chunking long before the Burma Road opened. Another reason behind this Sino-Soviet co-operation on Sinkiang was the threat of a possible Japanese Blitzkrieg westwards across the Gobi desert. Only the decisive battle of Nomonhan in Mongolia between Soviet and Japanese army units eliminated the acute danger of such a Blitzkrieg.
When the German front of the Red Army was sagging in early 1942 - before the turning point of Stalingrad - the Soviet grip on Sinkiang was replaced by that of the Kuomintang. Moreover, it has been possible in the paper to point out and to correlate historical events in the USSR and the province of Sinkiang during the scrutinized decade.