So adding it up total Soviet effort against China
11 Tank Divisions - 4 still there, 5 transferred, 2 destroyed - one out of five divisions committed destroyed
40 Motor Rifle Divisions - 9 still there, 15 transferred, 12 destroyed, 4 mutinied after duty there - one third of the divisions committed destroyed or mutinied
So gives you an idea of the scale of the commitment they made in China - and why they had to go nuclear as they did - otherwise with what was going on in Poland they would have lost for sure by the end of 1997
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