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To: LindyBill who wrote (73245)	2/12/2003 11:53:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Russia occupied the Kuriles and South Sakhalin, minor islands of Japan but had nothing to do with the main part of Japan. Russia's big bite was Outer Mongolia, Dairen, Port Arthur, and Manchuria's main railways. That was their price for entering the war against Japan. That's not so, LB, they also had troops in Japan. Though I don't know what the arrangements were exactly. But that was also part of Stalin's price. My father was in the occupation and he acted as a Russian interpreter. In fact, he got a swift promotion from corporal to captain when the US army realized it didn't have enough decent interpreters (the Russian interpreters were all captains).