Soviet–Japanese War

The Soviet–Japanese War (Russian: Советско-японская война; Japanese: ソ連対日参戦) was a short-lived, limited armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire during the last days of World War II. It began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945 (the same day Nagasaki was nuked by the United States) and ended on 2 September 1945 with Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. The Soviets' entry into the war against Japan was an important factor because it formally ended the Soviet role as a third-party country in negotiation of peace with conditions."Battlefield Manchuria – The Forgotten Victory", Battlefield (documentary series), 2001, 98 minutes.Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Penguin, 2001 . (Extracts on-line)Robert James Maddox, Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, University of Missouri Press, 2007 .

Combined with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, this was among the reasons why Japan surrended.

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