Japan Surrendered to Avoid Stalin

Japan didn’t surrender because of the atomic bombs. That’s the version everyone knows.

But the truth… sits much farther in the shadows. August 9, 1945.

While America dropped the second atomic bomb, Japan was still preparing to fight.

They had millions of soldiers. Civilians ready to die. An entire nation

conditioned to resist invasion to the last breath. The belief was simple. America would eventually

negotiate. An invasion would cost too many lives on both sides. Then something more

terrifying happened. The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria with 1.5 million troops.

and the soviets showed no mercy in Manchuria. They steamrolled Japanese forces