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Chinese Eastern Railway
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Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the CER entered a period of complex tripartite control involving the nascent Soviet government, local Warlords (such as Zhang Zuolin), and Allied intervention forces. The Soviet Union eventually regained full administrative control in 1924 through the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1924, renaming it the Kitaiskaya Vostochnaya Zheleznya Doroga (KVZhD).
The KVZhD remained a vital strategic asset until the late 1930s. However, by 1935, under pr…