The Cold War Never Ended in Asia
... Remembering WW2 in Asia One of the items of Vladimir Putin agenda in Harbin was to lay flowers at the memorial to some twelve thousand of Soviet soldiers and officers who died during WW2 liberating Manchuria from the Japanese occupation. The Russian leader ... ... the latter difference was evident—socialist countries in Asia (the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) never collapsed, imploded or converted to Western-style capitalism like ...