"Халхин-Гол и Хасан были типичными приграничными инцидентами НА СПОРНЫХ МОНГОЛЬСКИХ ЗЕМЛЯХ!"
Бу-ха-ха. Щедра на идиотов земля американская. Но идиоты, да не совсем. Одно дело - говорить подобное наивному Юрию, другое - не-Юрию вовсе.
базарным для внеклассного чтения (хотя, им хоть на старо-славянском объясняй, без толку...):
"..On July 6, 1938 the Japanese Kwantung Army intercepted and decoded a message sent by the Russian commander in the Posyet region to Soviet headquarters in Khabarovsk. The message recommended that
Russian soldiers be allowed to secure previously unoccupied high ground west of Lake Khasan,
most notably the disputed Changkufeng Heights, because it would be advantageous for the Soviets to occupy terrain which overlooked the Korean port-city of Rajin, as well as strategic railways linking Korea to Manchuria. Within the next two weeks, small groups of Soviet border troops then moved into the area and began fortifying the mountain, constructing emplacements, observation trenches, entanglements, and communications facilities.
At first, the Japanese Korean Army, which had been assigned to defend the area, disregarded the Soviet advance. However, the Kwantung Army, whose administrative jurisdiction overlapped Changkufeng, pushed the Korean Army to take more action because it was suspicious of Soviet intentions. Following this, the Korean Army took the matter to Tokyo, recommending that a formal protest be sent to the USSR.
The conflict started on July 15, when the Japanese attaché in Moscow demanded the removal of Soviet border troops from the Bezymyannaya (сопка Безымянная, Chinese name: Shachaofeng) and Zaozyornaya (сопка Заозёрная, Chinese name: Changkufeng) Hills to the west of Lake Khasan in the south of Primorye, not far from Vladivostok,
claiming this territory by the Soviet–Korea border. The demand was rejected..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Khasan"..The battle was named after the river Khalkhyn Gol passing through the battlefield. In Japan, the battle was known as the Nomonhan Incident after a nearby village on the border between Mongolia and Manchuria..
In 1939, Manchuria was a puppet state of Japan, known as Manchukuo. The Japanese maintained that
the border between Manchukuo and the Mongolian People's Republic was the Khalkhyn Gol (English "Khalkha River") which flows into Lake Buir. In contrast, the Mongolians and their Soviet allies
maintained that the border ran some 16 kilometres (10 miles) east of the river, just east of Nomonhan village..."
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.c ... lhin%20Gol