The Russians, under the Tehran agreement between Roosevelt and Stalin, put an end to the war with Japan.
Wishing to secure its borders in the Far East and going towards the Allies, the USSR committed itself to enter the war with Japan two or three months after the end of the war with Germany. On August 9, 1945, hostilities began.
At the final stage of World War II, during the Manchurian strategic, South Sakhalin offensive and the Kuril landing operation, the group of Soviet armed forces in the Far East defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army and liberated northeastern China, North Korea, South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Japan’s military and economic potential was severely undermined, and the defeat of the Kwantung Army forced the country to capitulate.
On September 2, 1945, on board the US battleship “Missouri”, the representatives of allied countries, including the USSR, signed the Act of Surrender of Japan.
September 3, 1945 - the day after the capitulation of Japan in World War II, the day of victory over Japan and the end of World War II was declared by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
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It is also possible to learn from new documents that the former military leadership of the Kwantung Army did not consider the testing of bacteriological weapons on living persons a crime against humanity, explaining this by the fact that there were no prohibitive international acts on this subject, and cynically justified these experiments by the need to determine the effectiveness of deadly microbes.
The names of Soviet prisoners of war, who had been tortured by the Japanese secret service and could not be made to work against the Soviet Union, were also revealed and sent to their deaths in 1945 to special unit 731 of the Kwantung Army, where experiments were conducted on them.
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