trovo questo topic assai interessante per i seguenti motivi:
1) la storiografia italiana (europea), del tutto eurocentricamente, concentra la sua attenzione relativa alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale solo sul teatro europeo (e poi, dopo Pearl Harbour, alla Guerra nel Pacifico) ed episodi come questo sono del tutto ignorati;
2) invece, come già la stessa Wilkypedia nota, questo scontro ebbe conseguenze importantissime:
a) determinò la scelta strategica dei Giapponesi di NON attaccare la Siberia e non creare un "secondo fronte" contro l'URSS:
" It may be said to be the first decisive battle of World War II, because it determined that the two principal Axis Powers, Germany and Japan, would never geographically link up their areas of control through Russia. The defeat convinced the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo that the policy of the North Strike Group, favoured by the army, which wanted to seize Siberia as far as Lake Baikal for its resources, was untenable. Instead the South Strike Group, favored by the navy, which wanted to seize the resources of Southeast Asia, especially the petroleum and mineral-rich Dutch East Indies, gained the ascendancy, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor two and a half years later in December 1941. The Japanese would never make an offensive movement towards Russia again. In 1941, the two countries signed agreements respecting the borders of Mongolia and Manchukuo and pledging neutrality towards each other. They remained at peace until Operation August Storm and the Soviet conquest of Manchuria in August 1945, in the final week of the war" (da Wilkypedia);
b) fu una vittoria sovietica che venne genialmente riusata dal generale Zhukov nele campagne sul fronte contro i nazisti, in scontri decisivi della Seconda Guerra Mondiale: "Zhukov himself was promoted and transferred west to the Kiev district. The battle experience gained by Zhukov was put to good use in December 1941 at the Battle of Moscow. Zhukov was able to use this experience to launch the first successful Soviet counteroffensive against the German invasion of 1941. Many units of the Siberian and other trans-Ural armies were part of this attack. A year after flinging the Germans back from the capital, Zhukov planned and executed the Russian attack at the Battle of Stalingrad, using a technique very similar to Khalkin Gol, in which the Soviet forces held the enemy fixed in the center, built up a mass of force in the area undetected, and launched a pincer attack on the wings to trap the enemy army" (idem).
c) al contrario dei Sovietici (ma direi di Zhukov, visto che altri generali sovietici non usarono le sue tecniche e non riconobbero neppure le carateristiche del blitzkrieg nazista, assai simili,e ne pagarono le conseguenze pesantemente!) i Giapponesi non impararono nulla da quella sconfitta: "The Japanese, however, while learning never to attack the USSR again, made no major changes to their tactical doctrines. They continued to emphasize the bravery and courage of the individual soldier over massing force and armor" (idem).
Ma "naturalmente", poiché tutto ci? avvenne in Mongolia e non in Belgio, quasi nulla se ne spiega nei nostri libri di Storia, mentre conosciamo a memoria le battaglie di Bastogne, delle Ardenne, ecc.!
Che provinciali che siamo obbligati ad essere!
