Second Russo-Japanese War

The Soviet-Japanese War (Russian: Российская война в Японии, or "Russian War on Japan"), in the normal timeline, was an armed conflict in 1945, towards the end of the Second World War. In the alternate universe presented in the TACITUS saga, the Soviet-Japanese War, also known as the Second Russo-Japanese War (Russian: Вступление Советского Союза в войну против Японии, English: Soviet Union entry into war against Japan), was an armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the Imperial Japanese Empire during World War II, which began in 1939 and ended on May 25, of 1945.
==History==
===Background===
Main article: December 7, 1941 Terrorist Attacks
Japan had invaded China, beginning the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Soviet Union, United States, and England formed a coalition against Japan, aiming to support the Chinese war effort.
The USSR, having built an orbital satellite weapon known as Brown Bear, sought to cripple the Japanese by attacking its navy with Brown Bear (a sort of reversal of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the normal timeline). The USSR launched a surprise attack against Japan, aiming to decimate the Navy, but only severely crippled the Imperial Japanese Air Force, since most of the Japanese Navy was away supporting the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japan responded by declaring war on the USSR.
Then the December 7, 1941 Terrorist Attacks happened, and following this, the Imperial Japanese Empire invaded the USSR, bringing both the United States and the USSR into World War II. 
==Notable battles==
*Battle of Kamchatka
*Siege of Leningrad
*Battle of Moscow
*Battle of St. Petersburg
*Battle of Rostov (1941)
*Winter Campaign of 1941-42
*Battle of Voronezh
*Battle of Stalingrad
*Battle of Kursk
*Battle of Narva (1944)
==Gallery==
Repelling the Japanese invasion.jpg|Yuri Belov fighting Japanese soldiers in Stalingrad
Soviets fighting Japs in USSR.png|Yuri Belov fighting against Imperial Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad
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