Soviet Union's tanks in UUSR-China border in 1970's
According to military documents being leaked out in China, the Former Soviet Union had planned to take massive military actions in an attempt to wipe out China.
At that time, the USSR army had the following deployments in Asia. Along the east then USSR-China border: three army groups and one army infantry group under the Far East Military Command, totaled 18 infantry divisions, one tank division and two airborne assault brigades; three army groups under the Back Baikal Military Command, totaled ten infantry divisions, three tank divisions; five infantry divisions under the Siberia Military Command; three infantry divisions and two tank divisions stationed in Mongolia. Along the west then USSR-China border: eight infantry divisions, one tank divisions under the Central-Asia Military Command; five infantry divisions, one tank division and one airborne division under the Turkistan Military Command.
Soviet Union's then total armed forces stationed in Asia included 1.27 million troops, 14,300 tanks and 4,200 airplanes. Among 59 army divisions in total, 45 divisions, or 675,000 troops were stationed along the USSR-China border.
On China's side, there were over 2 million troops regularly stationed near the northern borders, among which the Shenyang Army Region alone had 830 thousands.
In the Far East where transportations were long and difficult, the best strategy for the Soviet Union to win a war against China at that time was to plan a quick decisive attack, considering as what they faced was a large country that had great long term defense abilities, huge active armed forces and sufficient military reserves. In such a strategy, they would first make full use of firepower to destroy China's strongest military corps, i.e., the Shenyang Army Region, then seize rich farm lands and oil fields in the northeast of China, and ultimately force China's summation. But if they were to launch attacks along the east border, they would need at least 1.2 to 1.5 million troops, with three front armies surrounding the Shenyang Military Region, and one front army containing the Beijing Military Region. For doing so, they would have to dispatch 2 front armies, 67 army divisions, and the entire command systems as well as forces of 14 army groups from the Back Baikal and the Far East Regions so to reach a total scale of 4 front armies, 20 army groups and 100 army divisions. Based on their transportation abilities at that time, it would take to them at least 80 days to have all troops in place. That would be too slow; China could easily figure it out and take pre-emptive attacks. On the other hand, the inventories and transportation capacities USSR had in the Far East wouldn't be able to support a protracted war. Therefore, the real intention that the USSR had when they stationed massive military forces along the USSR-China borders was to force China to come back to the negotiating table. Their focus at that time was still on Europe.
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