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The Russian Air Force did not have large, four engine heavy strategic bombers, capable of reaching targets far behind the lines. What bombing the Russians did was tactical, in direct support of troops on the ground, by smaller airplanes. When the US began bombing Japan late in the war three times different US B-29 bombers were damaged over Japan and instead of trying to return to their island bases, flew the shorter flight from Japan to Russian territory. They landed near the Russian Pacific coast port of Vladivostok. Russia was not at war with Japan, they were officially "neutral" in the Pacific War, until the last week, when they jumped in to snatch up some territory. The Russians interned the crews of these B-29s and kept the planes. Then they "reverse engineered" the B-29s, taking them completely apart, and designed their own identical copy, the Tupolev Tu 4. But this was not ready in time to see any war service, it merely was a threat to the US during the Cold War.

When the Russian armies got close enough, within artillery range, they would pound enemy cities mercilessly with cannon. Cities such as Warsaw and Berlin were completely ruined.

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