The signing of the Japanese surrender document means the end of World War II and confirms the legitimacy of the Soviet Union's war against Japan. Many countries therefore designated September 2nd as the anniversary of the end of World War II.
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The last battle of World War II ended in China: the Soviet Union sent troops to the Northeast.
Russia has designated May 9, when the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany, as Victory Day and will hold a grand military parade. But for the whole World War II, the victory over Nazi Germany did not mean the end of the anti-fascist war.
1On August 9th, 945, the Soviet Red Army, with the help of China's soldiers and civilians, launched a decisive attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast of China.
Even after Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender on August 5th, 1945, there were still remnants of the Japanese army fighting in several fortresses. It was not until August 30th that the gunfire at Dongning Fortress near Mudanjiang completely stopped, announcing the end of the last battle of World War II.
The Soviet Union will try its best to buy time to redeploy its troops.
At the Yalta Conference from February 4th, 1945 to February 4th, 1945, Stalin promised that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan three months after Nazi Germany surrendered.
Previously, for their respective strategic needs, the Soviet Union and Japan have been relying on the Treaty of Neutrality between the Soviet Union and Japan signed in 194 1 to maintain a "cold peace", but both sides know that once the strategic situation changes, this treaty will no longer be binding.
1On April 5, 945, Molotov, a member of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, summoned Sato Takeshi, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, and announced that the Soviet Union had unilaterally abolished the Treaty of Neutrality between the Soviet Union and Japan.
This is actually a dangerous signal that the Soviet Union is about to go to war, but Japanese high-level officials think that the abolition of the treaty seems to have profound meaning: "If Japan proposes a more attractive new treaty, the Soviet Union may replace Nazi Germany as a strong ally of Japan."
So Japan put forward a plan to exchange a lot of benefits for the Soviet Union to mediate the war.
On June 7th, Soviet Ambassador to Japan Malik reported to Moscow: "As a condition for the renewal of the new agreement between the Soviet Union and Japan, Japan is willing to return the South Sakhalin Island occupied during the 1905 Russian-Japanese War to China, and even hand over the entire Kuril Islands to me."
Knowing the intention of the Japanese government, Stalin decided to use "diplomatic Tai Chi" to buy time for sending troops to the Far East.
This practice has received magical results. Even when China, the United States and Britain issued the Potsdam Proclamation demanding Japan's unconditional surrender on July 26th, and the Soviet Union also announced its agreement with the spirit of the proclamation, the Japanese government still hoped that the Soviet Union could help "lower the conditions for surrender".
Under the cover of negotiations with Japan, the Soviet Red Army completed the preparations for the Far East campaign "unnoticed".
When the General Staff of the Soviet Union drew up the operational plan, it came up with three operational plans: landing in Japanese mainland, attacking Shanhaiguan in China and blitzkrieg Manchuria.
At this time, Lu Haijun's main force of about 2 million was assembled in Japanese mainland, and the Soviet army lacked the ability to carry out the strategic landing campaign, so there was no absolute victory.
However, there is no dense Japanese army group in Shanhaiguan, and the Soviet army can only send troops to North China along the direction from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Zhangjiakou, China. The road is impassable and cannot give the Japanese a decisive blow.
Only Manchuria, where more than 700,000 Kwantung troops are gathered, is the most intensive and powerful battle group of the Japanese army in China. The Soviet army is convinced that if the Kwantung Army is quickly eliminated, Japan will lose its most elite army and crush Japan's will to continue the war.
People's Daily Online-The last battle of World War II ended in China: the Soviet Union sent troops to the Northeast.