| Summary/Abstract |
Almost all history books claim that the Battle of Lake Khasan was provoked in the summer of 1938 by the aggression of Imperial Japan into Soviet territory. The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal of 1946 accepted this version propagated by Moscow, which almost all historians have also accepted. There has been no substantive re-examination of this battle for more than three quarters of a century. Recent publications from Soviet military archives as well as documents from the Dmitrii Volkogonov Archive suggest that the Soviet-Japanese military conflict of 1938 was a cleverly disguised Soviet provocation. This fundamental reassessment of the battle has far-reaching implications for Moscow’s war of camouflage, disinformation, and obfuscation during the Soviet and post-Soviet era.
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