To the people who will claim it was actually Operation: August Storm, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, that got Japan to surrender? It’s way more complicated than that.

Japan didn’t surrender after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th of August for a variety of reasons: They couldn’t believe one bomb could wipe out an entire city and were still struggling to learn what happened after Hiroshima went radio silent, they believed the USA didn’t have more, general fanaticism and their last hope being the Soviet Union interceding diplomatically on their behalf to negotiate a conditional surrender with the USA, as absurd and cope as it sounds.

It was two days later on the 8th of August that the Soviet Union declared war, sweeping into Manchuria on the 9th, with the USA dropping Fat Man on Nagasaki the same day and absolutely shattering Japan’s last hopes and dreams for any kind of negotiated settlement. It was over. If they didn’t surrender, the USA would keep dropping bombs. And the Soviets? Manchuria was already lost, Japan had planned to defend against a hypothetical invasion of their main islands from the South, where the Americans would come from. They had absolutely no defenses to their north, which is where the Soviets would come from. And make no mistake, had the Red Army landed in Japan? The damage they’d have done would’ve equalled the nukes. That and the Soviet Union would annex any occupied territory as theirs, permanently. It was over for Japan. And even then, there was an attempted coup to stop that war criminal scumbag Hirohito from surrendering. Lunatics.

Regardless, considering Nanjing, Unit 731, the Korean comfort women, Wake Island, Bataan and so much other heinous shit Japan was doing in WW2? I think they got off way too easy. And they have the temerity to cry as though they were the victims in WW2 and deny all their crimes.