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When Japan was defeated, 20,000 people refused to surrender and hid in the Changbai Mountains, and their whereabouts are still a mystery

With the explosion of two American atomic bombs in Japan, Soviet troops entered northeast China, and in 1945, Japan finally announced its unconditional surrender, and even so, there were still some diehards who refused to accept the facts and ran to the Changbai Mountains to resist, and their whereabouts are still unknown.

When Japan was defeated, 20,000 people refused to surrender and hid in the Changbai Mountains, and their whereabouts are still a mystery

The Tohoku region is the first piece of land occupied by Japan in China, after more than ten years of operation, it has become the base camp of Japan in China, and some Japanese even grew up here and regarded the Northeast as their home. After the Japanese army announced its unconditional surrender, although there were still many diehards throughout the country still resisting, they finally could not withstand the torrent of historical development and had to submit, but some Japanese troops in the northeast were different, and their thinking was extremely stubborn, especially when the Japanese army established a pseudo-Manchurian regime in the northeast, so these people continued to resist under the banner of common prosperity in Greater East Asia.

When Japan was defeated, 20,000 people refused to surrender and hid in the Changbai Mountains, and their whereabouts are still a mystery

But later, as the Soviet army entered the northeast, coupled with the cooperation with the Nationalist army, the Japanese army was finally captured almost all of the Japanese army with the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. The exception was the army, which numbered about 20,000 men, who swore not to accept the fact of surrender, and finally fled into the Changbai Mountains.

When Japan was defeated, 20,000 people refused to surrender and hid in the Changbai Mountains, and their whereabouts are still a mystery

Later, in order to completely eliminate the Japanese army, the Soviet army and the Nationalist army conducted a large search in the Changbai Mountains, but in the end they still found nothing, and to this day, the traces of these Japanese troops are still a mystery. However, it is certain that in the primeval forest of Changbai Mountain, it is very difficult to survive, and now that decades have passed, those Japanese troops are likely to have died in the deep mountains and old forests.

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