Photo taken on Oct. 5th, 1943.
The history behind this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Ant...ese_United_Army

Thanks for this information. I never knew this unit existed. Interesting stuff.

Cheers, Richard

This so-called international brigade retreated to Soviet Union around 1940 and was not permitted to go back to China due to the Russian-Japanese neutrality treaty. It consisted of Chinese and Koreans mostly, including Kim Il-sun. Russian support for military actions against Japanese was evident in the years between 1935 and 1937. After Sino-Japanese War was provoked by Chinese GRU agents in 1937, then Russians did not deem necessary to support Chinese communists in the continuous military actions against Japan. Chinese communists did not dispatch cadres, like Yang Jingyu, to the military leadership of guerrillas in Manchuria till around early 1934. Before 1934, it was mostly Chinese Youth Party who led the guerrilla war in Manchuria.

I uploaded a Kim Il Sung Mmeoirs at

http://www.republicanchina.org/Kim-Il-Sung-memoirs.pdf

It will give you a microscopic view as to communist guerrilla warfare in Manchuria. Note back in 1931-1932, Chinese guerrillas and Korean nationalists indiscriminately killed Korean communists once they were caught. Their claim was that it was the [Korean] communists who provoked Japanese invasion into Manchuria. When hundreds of thousands of people, Chinese guerrillas and Korean nationalists, unanimously blamed the communists for Japanese in vasion of Manchuria, there had to be microscopic level activities that led to the development of events, i.e., Japanese invasion of Manchuria. A correct view could be derived after examining the activities of Comintern agents immediately ahead of the September 18th, 1931 invasion.