Editing Shenyang (section)

===Post-World War II===
[[File:The Fall of Shenyang.jpg|thumb|left|[[People's Liberation Army]] [[Type 97 Chi-Ha]] tanks advancing into Shenyang during the [[Liaoshen Campaign]]]]
Under [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]], the Far East Command<ref name="Battlefield Series">[https://archive.today/20121209092119/http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0001DI5IA "Battlefield – Manchuria – The Forgotten Victory"], [[Battlefield (documentary series)]], 2001, 98 minutes.</ref> of the [[Red Army]] occupied Manchuria in early August 1945 following the surrender of Japan.<ref name="Glantz">LTC David M. Glantz, [http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/LP7_AugustStormTheSoviet1945StrategicOffensiveInManchuria.pdf "August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria"]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171601/http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/LP7_AugustStormTheSoviet1945StrategicOffensiveInManchuria.pdf|date=March 3, 2016}}. Leavenworth Papers No. 7, Combat Studies Institute, February 1983, [[Fort Leavenworth]] [[Kansas]].<!-- Mirrored at, or redirected from/to, {{cite web |url=http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/glantz3/glantz3.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621210601/http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/glantz3/glantz3.asp |archive-date=2009-06-21}} --></ref> On 16 August 1945, Manchurian Emperor [[Puyi]] was captured in Shenyang Airport by the Soviets while he was in an airplane fleeing to Japan.<ref name="Li Shuxian, 73, Widow of Last China Emperor">{{cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |title=Li Shuxian, 73, Widow of Last China Emperor |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 June 1997}}</ref> On 20 August, Soviet troops captured Shenyang. British and US reports indicate that the Soviet troops that occupied [[Northeast China]] and Eastern Inner Mongolia region looted and terrorized the people of Shenyang, and were not discouraged by [[Soviet occupation of Manchuria|Soviet occupation authorities]] from "three days of rape and pillage".<ref name=CSM>Christian Science Monitor, 12 October 1945.<br />''Japanese armies were guilty of appalling excesses, both in China and elsewhere, and had the Russians dealt harshly with only Japanese nationals in Manchuria this would have appeared as just retribution. But the indiscriminate looting and raping inflicted upon the unoffending Chinese by the Russians naturally aroused the keenest indignation.''</ref><ref name=FCJones>{{cite book |author=F. C. Jones |year=1949 |title=Manchuria since 1931 |publisher=Royal Institute of International Affairs |location=London, Oxford University Press |chapter=Chapter XII – Events in Manchuria, 1945–47 |pages=224–5, 227–9 |url=http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/bitstream/handle/OUDL/13712/216873_Manchuria_Since_1931.pdf?sequence=2 |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219040912/http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/bitstream/handle/OUDL/13712/216873_Manchuria_Since_1931.pdf?sequence=2 |archive-date=2013-12-19}} ''(The relevant sections also appear at [[Talk:Soviet invasion of Manchuria/Events in Manchuria, 1945-47]])''</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/lastempressmadam00paku_0 |url-access=registration |quote=mukden berlin rape and pillage. |title=The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China |author=Hannah Pakula |year=2009 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=[https://archive.org/details/lastempressmadam00paku_0/page/530 530] |isbn=978-1-4391-4893-8 |access-date=2014-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCDv67C2BzkC&q=red+army+rape+manchuria&pg=PA82 |title=The Soviet Union and communist China, 1945–1950: the arduous road to the alliance |author=Dieter Heinzig |year=2004 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |page=82 |isbn=0-7656-0785-9 |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617221659/http://books.google.com/books?id=yCDv67C2BzkC&pg=PA82&dq=red+army+rape+manchuria#v=onepage&q=red%20army%20rape%20manchuria&f=false |archive-date=2014-06-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=falbrObQ11IC&q=red+army+rape+manchuria&pg=PA86 |title=The geopolitics of East Asia: the search for equilibrium |author=Robyn Lim |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |page=86 |isbn=0-415-29717-6 |access-date=2010-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214021526/http://books.google.com/books?id=falbrObQ11IC&lpg=PA86&dq=red%20army%20rape%20manchuria&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q=red%20army%20rape%20manchuria&f=false |archive-date=2011-12-14 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hE2xFxbca0C&q=red+army+rape+manchuria&pg=PA33 |title=In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia |author=[[Ronald H. Spector]] |year=2008 |publisher=Random House, Inc. |page=33 |isbn=978-0-8129-6732-6 |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617221650/http://books.google.com/books?id=9hE2xFxbca0C&lpg=PA33&dq=red%20army%20rape%20manchuria&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=red%20army%20rape%20manchuria&f=false |archive-date=2014-06-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="sydjfycgjg"/><ref name="沈阳解放改变世界">{{cite news |language=zh-hans |url=http://epaper.syd.com.cn/sywb/html/2013-10/29/content_954617.htm |script-title=zh:1948年, 沈阳解放改变了中国与世界 |script-work=zh:《沈阳晚报》 |date=2013-10-29 |access-date=2013-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023081405/http://epaper.syd.com.cn/sywb/html/2013-10/29/content_954617.htm |archive-date=2014-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://culture.inewsweek.cn/20131102/detail-74055-all.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214151127/http://culture.inewsweek.cn/20131102/detail-74055-all.html |archive-date=2013-12-14 |script-title=zh:1948年11月2日 沈阳解放 |script-work=zh:中国新闻周刊网 |access-date=2014-05-29}}</ref>

The Soviets were replaced by the [[Republic of China Army]], who were flown in on U.S. transport planes.<ref>{{cite book |author=Zhang Mingjin ({{lang|zh-hant|張明金}}) |author2=Liu Liqin ({{lang|zh-hant|劉立勤}}) |script-title=zh:《國民黨歷史上的158個軍》 |year=2007 |publisher=解放軍出版社 |location=Beijing }}</ref> During the [[Chinese Civil War]], Shenyang remained a [[Kuomintang]] stronghold supplied by [[Claire Lee Chennault]]'s [[Civil Air Transport]] from 1946 to 1948, although the [[Chinese Communist Party]] controlled the surrounding countryside.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Dikötter |first=Frank. |title=The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957 |date=2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury Press |isbn=978-1-62040-347-1 |edition=1 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |language=zh-hans |author=Zhu Yuepeng ({{lang|zh-hans|朱悦鹏}}) |script-title=zh:《东北解放战争纪实》 |publisher=长征出版社 |location=Beijing }}</ref> By February 1948 the city was suffering from drastic shortages, and by the summer 140,000 refugees per month were fleeing. It was captured by the [[People's Liberation Army]] on October 30, 1948, following a series of offensives led by [[Lin Biao]] known as the [[Liaoshen Campaign]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name="sydjfycgjg">{{Citation |author=Yu Huating ({{lang|zh|于化庭}}) |script-title=zh:沈阳的解放与成功接管 |script-journal=zh:《党史纵横》 |issue=8 |year=2008 }}</ref><ref name="亲历记">{{cite book |language=zh-hans |author=文史资料研究委员会 |script-title=zh:辽沈战役亲历记 -原国民党将领的回忆 |edition=1992年版 |publisher=[[Chinese Literature and History Press]] |location=Beijing |date=April 1992 |isbn=7-5034-0559-7}}</ref>

Over the past 200 years or so, Shenyang managed to grow and increase its industrial might during consecutive wars with [[Russo-Japanese War|Russia]] and [[First Sino-Japanese War|Japan]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Second World War]], and [[Chinese Communist Revolution|China's Civil War]] (Shenyang became the main battleground between the [[Communist Party of China|Communists]] and [[Kuomintang|Nationalists]]).