history · 14 August 1945 · 79 years ago
Song Ziwen and Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance at Moscow, Russia, affirming that the Soviet Union recognized the Chinese Nationalist Party as the legitimate ruler of China (as opposed to the Chinese Communists), and that Outer Mongolia region of China was to become independence (ie. under Soviet control).
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