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Originally Posted by GuerraCivil
I remember to have read that even such planes like old Polikarpov I-16īs were still in flyable condition in 1945/1946 and put in service by Communists for recce and ground attack missions.
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Communist received no aircraft, I-16 or other kind, from Soviet in the WWII, look at the map, communist controlled area had no land communication with either Soviet or Mongol. Besides Soviet was desperately trying to avoid a two front war, so they need their alliance with Nationalist government much more than communist to tie down Japanese in the east, in order to achieving that means no military aid to communist. the I-16s and other soviet aircraft sent to nationalist were phased out by new American aircraft before the end of WWII, and hence were not used by either side in the civil war