Why didn't the Japanese Invade the Soviet Union and Help Finish them off?

Even though they shared a heavily-militarized border, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan didn't fight until the very end of the war. Why? This video sheds light on the pre-war border conflict and a spy who might have changed the course of the entire Second World War.

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Writer - Brad Dare
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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:48 The Soviet-Japanese Border War
2:01 Battle of Khalkin-Gol
3:33 The Kwantung Army
5:06 Richard Sorge: Spy Extraordinaire
7:08 Sorge’s Intel
8:17 Legacy
9:59 Conclusion