With the surrender of Germany, Japan, which had done all the bad things in China, was "lonely and hard to sound", and Japan, which lost in the Pacific War, became the last sinner on the earth, and their years of burning and looting in China were finally coming to an end.
The two atomic bombs dropped by the United States made Japan understand that they were doomed to failure, and at this time, the Kwantung Army, known as the "Flower of the Imperial Army", also became the "end of the crossbow", and as the Kwantung Army was mostly drawn to the Pacific Theater, the Kwantung Army that was added to it was no longer japan's elite, but a team of old, weak and sick.
On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union's mighty army of 1.5 million came out like wild horses, and their goal was only one, that is, the Kwantung Army, Japan's last regiment. In the course of World War II, the Soviet Union sacrificed 60 million people to defend its homeland, and the culprit of all this was Japan, except for Germany. Faced with Japan, the last enemy, the Soviets gritted their teeth and rushed forward, almost in a sweeping situation, defeated the Kwantung Army at the end of the "strong crossbow", and captured nearly 600,000 Japanese prisoners in one go, most of them male soldiers, and a small number of female soldiers.
Japan knew that the general situation was gone, and in desperation, it chose unconditional surrender. The Japanese, who thought surrender would be fine, miscalculated the idea of a country that was the only Australia that did not accept Japan's surrender. The Anger of the Australians against the Japanese reached its limit, and they chose not to accept Japan's surrender, executing all 170,000 Japanese prisoners, without exception.
Unlike Australia' choice, the United States chose to accept Japan's surrender, but handled japanese prisoners in a unique way. The Americans stripped the Japanese captives of their clothes and then humiliated them in full view of the public, which not only prevented the Japanese from stealing weapons and injuring people, but also retaliated against the Japanese prisoners, so that the Japanese soldiers lost their dignity. If Australia's approach is "killing", then the American way of dealing with it is "killing".
The Soviet Union was different from Australia and the United States, the Soviets chose to accept Japan's surrender, and at the same time did not kill the Japanese prisoners, but did not repatriate and release them, but brought all of Japan's nearly 600,000 prisoners back to the Soviet Union, exiled to the cold wind of Siberia, and became the coolies of the Soviet Union. The japanese captives in Siberia atonement were more painful than death, more humiliating than stripping, and exploited by the Soviets for their final value.
In the concentration camps of Siberia in the Soviet Union, it was a dark black hole for the Japanese, where not having enough to eat was the norm, no winter clothes, not wearing warm clothes was a daily routine, and hard work was the value of their ability to survive. If they were sick and unable to continue working, the Soviets would not waste a drop of medical resources to save these war criminals, but would simply leave them to fend for themselves.
In the cold of Siberia, the Japanese captives had long since lost their ghostly "Bushido" spirit, some of them were physically strong, and in order to please the female guards, they preferred to become a source of happiness for them, in exchange for some milk and bread in a "flattering" way, or even just a night of sleep in the greenhouse.
Among this group of captives was a group of Japanese female captives, among whom there were military correspondents, hygienists, comfort women, and so on, but in Siberia, they had only one identity, and that was captives. As prisoners of deep sin, no one would care even if they died, let alone being whipped by Soviet soldiers in the cold winter. In the middle of the night, the Bored Soviet soldiers who stayed in Siberia and took pleasure in female captives were inevitable, and they would not think that they would repay some of the crimes committed by the Japanese?
Although only 350 grams of brown bread and 20 grams of sugar were provided a day to keep the Japanese captives alive, their ability to work was so poor that the value they produced could not even make up for the losses of the camps. Because of this, the Japanese captives finally ushered in the opportunity to be repatriated, but in August 1949, when all the Japanese captives were repatriated, only about 300,000 of the 600,000 captives had returned to their homeland, hoping that these people could remember their mistakes and become people again.
Although their fate is self-inflicted, it is worth mentioning that after these people return to Japan, there will be no good results, because the people in Japan have great contempt for these captives who have been repatriated, and they are regarded as a disgrace to Japan.