When Japan invaded China, Comrade Stalin launched Operation Zet sending supplies and guns to China to help China and expected Chinese would see how good communism is and would join Mao's army. The other side effect of Japan invasion was USSR land was secure at least when the war was is raging in China. Knowing that Japan had some airplane, Comrade Stalin ordered Charkov Factory Design Bureau and Barrikada Factory Design Bureau to research Basic Anti Air Artillery, both static one and mobile one, as preparation to encounter Japanese airforce and ordered Nizny Tagil Factories to keep producing supplies and weapons with new Advanced Machine Tools.
After Japan invasion, USSR prepared for fascist invasion and tried to get information from radio frequency broadcasted by fascist radios (thanks to Basic Decryption Devices developed by Comrade Sergei Korolev and Improved Computing Machine developed by Kirov Factory Design Bureau). Moreover 61 Kommunara Nikolayev Shipyards also developed Basic Heavy Cruiser blueprint to protect USSR land from being invaded by Japanese navy.
In beginning of 1938, almost a year after Japan invasion, USSR celebrated her many improvement to be real communist state. At that time people's army had 191 divisions and all divisions equipped with Basic Field Artillery including 318. Diviziya Opolcheniya that created on 1 January 1938.
Meanwhile Comrade Stalin had some new radical idea and he would fasten the revolution with his radical idea.