 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Midzi yekurwisana neSoviet muImperial Japan yaivapo pamberi pekuvambwa kweSoviet Union pachayo. Vachida kuderedza simba reva tsarist muEast Asia mushure meRusso-Japanese War 19041905 uyezve kudzora kupararira kweBolshevism panguva yeRussian Civil War, maJapan akatumira mauto anosvika zviuru makumi manomwe muSiberia kubva muna 1918 kusvika muna 1922 sechikamu chekupindira kwavo kudivi reWhite Movement, vachitora Vladivostok nedzimwe nzvimbo dzakakosha kumabvazuva kweLake Baikal. Mushure mokubva kwenyika dzakawanda munharaunda yeRussia nokugadzwa kwehurumende yeSoviet, Mauto eJapan, achiziva kuti maSoviet aigona kuva simba rehondo uye achiita maererano nesungano yeRussia semuvengi wetsika, akaita zvirongwa zvekuzvidzivirira muhondo yemberi. Pakutanga vaida kuzvidzivirira, vakafungidzira kuti Red Army yaizopinda munharaunda yeChina iyo yaizobva yarwiswa nechiJapan chaizorwisa chichibva kuKorea, nechiitiko chinokosha chokurwisana chiri kumaodzanyemba kweManchuria. Pashure pokunge vaJapan vapinda muManchuriamuna 1931, mauto eJapane neeSoviet akazviwana akatarisana pamuganhu wakareba zviuru zvemakiromita. Kuti adzivirire nyika yechidhori yeManchukuo uye kutora danho rokutanga kurwisa Red Army, IJA yakagamuchira mutemo wekumisa chero kufambira mberi kweSoviet pamuganhu uye kurwisana nechikamu chikuru chehondo muSiberia, kuchinja kwepanguva mukufunga kweJapan. Shanduko kubva pakudzivirira kwamasimba masimba kuenda pakurwisa kwamasimba masimba yaisazodzoserwa kusvikira muna 1945, apo Japan yakanga ichitarisana nenjodzi mukati meHondo yePacific. Uyezve, zvirongwa zveJapan zvakawedzera zvishoma nezvishoma kubva pamabasa maduku kusvika kumakwikwi makuru ane zvikamu zvakawanda, ayo aifungidzira kutora zvinenge Soviet Far East yose kusvikira kuLake Baikal. 