The ghosts of 12,000 Soviet and 21,000 Japanese soldiers might beg to differ with you, there.

(And that's not even counting Khalkhin Gol.)

>but that does not excuse the fact that at a
>time when Joey Stalin was shrieking for every bit of war materiel the
>Allies could spare and making pointed demands for a second front to be
>opened ASAP, his goons were holding five American airmen in
>none-to-comfortable conditions and feeding them so badly it's a
>miracle none died.

I'm no fan (to put it mildly) of Joseph Stalin, and it certainly doesn't excuse the conditions in which our airmen were interned? But Stalin could probably be excused for thinking he had enough problems at that time without picking a fight with the Japanese.