“Chiang Kai-shek sits on a cannon”: Stalin's Operation Z and Lend-Lease from the US to China. Part One

Collage by Olena Zelenina.

Victory Day in the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese invaders and in the global anti-fascist war is officially and quite extensively celebrated in the PRC on September 3. This year, it is not just a date, but an 80th anniversary.