The only thing you could trust the Nationalist Chinese to do in 1945-1949 was lose. They were a miserably corrupt and horribly incompetent regime.
In the 1930s Chiang refused to fight against the Japanese because it would distract him from his fight against his internal opponents, even though the Japanese were invading his freaking country. I highly doubt that he would have been willing to send his army to invade Russia in 1945 when the Mao's Communists were still fighting back home.
We could have made the Russians fight a multi-front war in 1945, but we would have been fighting a multi-front war too. If you're fighting the same enemy on multiple fronts, the defender actually has the advantage because of internal lines. Multiple fronts is only a problem for the defender if they're being attacked by two different countries.
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